“Have you ever thought what you could have been, instead of what you are now or what exactly are you doing with your life?”
I who was speaking to no one in particular.
Let me introduce myself. I am Michael Wong, I live in Vancouver. A wonderful and beautiful vacation city where people come from far and wide to relax. But to me, it's a gray, boring and dull city. Which basically explains my life in a nutshell. A very normal and dry everyday life. I get up and go to work from nine to five, take a shower, listen to some music and head to bed.
My attempts at trying to brighten my dreary days is with cryptocurrencies. Perhaps because I am still young, I am willing to risk it all, but just looking at all these people who are lucky enough to make millions and not work anymore gives me hope for the future. Maybe, just maybe my cryptocurrencies will flourish, and I will become a millionaire. No, I will become a billionaire! With those millions, I can do whatever I want with them. Pay off my loan, buy new properties and buy new cars. Hell, I can finally get piggy his dream car.
Who is Piggy? Well, he's my best friend. As the nickname would suggest he is on the chubby side, around 168cm tall and with short cut hair. I met him through my first job at GE*X, selling shoes. I have to say he is the antithesis to myself. I had once explained to him about my plans of becoming a millionaire with crypto. I had this whole plan mapped out on how to avoid taxes. At the end I would bring bags of cash to the bank to deposit. It was a brilliant plan if I do say so myself. But apparently, he thought the idea was rubbish. He laughed in my face and said which bank would let him deposit bags of cash? I personally thought it was a perfect plan, with zero flaws and all. Clearly Piggy had other ideas.
The following day started off like any other. I woke up and brushed my teeth. I walked out my bedroom and bumped into my younger sister, Jenny.
「 Hey Michael, are you still a chauffeur for your wannabe girlfriend? You're so sad bro」 (Jenny)
Have you ever had your heart flutter when looking at someone? That’s her, her name is Shin-Wah Lee. A cute girl, I met through an English/Korean teaching app. She's totally my type if you’re curious. But like with everything else, if you want something you must work for it, something akin to a trial. This trial is as hard as David going against goliath. I try and try, but so far, it has all resulted in failures. What is it, you may ask? She has a boy friend. The good news is she doesn’t like him, and the bad news is she won’t break up with him no matter how much I ask her to. At this point it is expected in my life to face such suffering. As Piggy always says:
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「 Give up, she’s not good for you. Go find someone else, you can do better. 」(Piggy)
But I can’t. That stupid virgin piggy wouldn’t understand my difficulties.
I head off to my garage to drive my A*di to work. It’s a small black sedan with numerous scratches and in need of some washing. It may be old but its my first car I ever bought. As Piggy would point out every time he gets in the car:
「 LUXURY! 」(Piggy)
Did I ever mention about my job? I am currently a junior accountant at S Diamonds. I have no plans to become a senior accountant in the future. I primarily took this job due to the income that I make from it.
While walking over to my desk I greet my superiors and colleagues.
My dull and mundane day started off like any other. I head into a meeting with my superiors to update on what I have done and what I will be doing this week. Afterwards, I work on emails, basic accounting and finally I file papers to complete the day. Just thinking about this gives me a headache. A glass of soju would be nice right about now.
On the bright side, something good did happen while working at this job. I met my other friend, Clive. He works in the IT support team. Amazingly enough, he just became a dad. Let me be honest here, there is no way I am becoming a father. There wouldn't be any time for myself, no sleep, no playing around and everything will be devoted to my children. What a horrible way to live.
He is also the one who introduced me to crypto.
「 If you want to get rich, you get rich with your friends or people you like. Am I right or am I right? 」(Clive)
By the time I arrived home it was already dark. I changed into my pajamas and slipped into bed. As the cool air wafted through my hair, I slowly drifted away.
As I opened my eyes a whole new world dawned upon me. As bright lights shined down on me I could hear my name being chanted repeatedly. “Michael! Michael! Michael! Michael”. Everyone was waiting for me. How can I let them down? So slowly, ever so slowly I got up on stage and looked at everyone ahead of me. I slowly puckered myself up and started to sing my favorite song. Amazingly enough, I had mastered the pitch, tone, and emotion in the song. I started asking myself, how was I this good? Why am I here? How did I get here? None of that mattered though because this was my stage. I could do anything here. This was all mine, and mine alone.
Suddenly, the stage shook like never before. I could barely keep myself standing. It was shaking so violently that I thought the world was going to collapse on itself. After fifteen minutes or so the shaking died down. I steadied and calmed myself. I continued like nothing had happened. Afterall, this was my stage and mine alone.