Rebuilding
Whats up guys, it's N0mad here. I want to write about my absence, journal some of my recent life events & as always I like to document my art projects and plans.
About 160 days ago my SOL & Metamask wallets were hacked & I lost a significant amount of money and artwork. This was my fault as well, I agreed to collaborate with someone & trusted them after awhile. While I did not give this individual my seed phrase, one of the occasions I met with them in person, I believe they gained access to a physical copy from my house. (I have decided karma is cruel, I don't want to deal with a legal hassle either) so my means of coping with a depressing loss was to walk away from crypto & web3 for a bit, and take some time to reflect.
In this time I didn't want to create art anymore. What bothered me more about all of this was losing the rights & ownership of over 2 years of artwork in my ETH wallet. While I never sold most of these pieces I felt attached to my creations and I spent a fair amount of money creating some of them (quality animation software isn't cheap)
I instead spent my time with my family and got back to life, real life.
As much as I enjoy creating art and being on the forefront of new socialfi & NFT opportunities, I have to say that none of it really mattered while I was away. Real connections with real people cannot be replaced by online interaction & I gotta say it felt healthy taking a break. In my absence I made a lot of positive changes in my life.
In my previous articles I described briefly some struggles about finding a safe place to live with my wife & son. My wife & I tried to stay with some of her family members to remedy the situation but quickly discovered that was not an option either. Unfortunately we had to return to a toxic household & situation that we had just left. This led to me feeling even more depressed and withdrawn from my former outgoing self.
I felt angry most days as the people I was living with were destroying my possessions, bullying my wife & son & ultimately doing anything to piss me off so I would either a. Get arrested for attacking someone eventually or b. Just leave.
Before i found work we would typically leave around 8am and spend all day in the city finding ways to enjoy ourselves & make our son happy. He probably went to the local zoo every other day for a couple weeks haha. It was actually great in its own way, we created a lot of quality memories the past few months despite hardship.
This anger towards my relatives put behind me turned into pure determination. I found a good paying job shortly after moving back and I began working 13 hour shifts, anything to get my own place quickly and turn life around. Fast forward to August & we are moving into a nice apartment on the expensive side of our city. (NGL, I was living in the straight ghetto of my city before this. My neighbors literally have had shootouts with police on our block 🤷♂️) Loving the change in environment, people & scenery. Plus our complex has an indoor heated pool & hot tub, so on my lazy days I really dig the amenities. I don't even have to buy my own coffee, there's quality coffee in the office every day. My son has put on weight and is much happier, a change in environment has worked wonders on his behavior and health & my wife is able to attend her classes and focus on our son again.
I am moving into a management position with a new cannabis company soon & next month my wife begins work as a leasing agent at our complex. I can walk my son to daycare down the street before work as well. In short, life is pretty sweet & I'm grateful that things are working out finally.
Since this I have found passion in creating artwork & writing again with my free time. I have began slowly rebuilding my crypto holdings & I'm nursing my existing NFT project $NomadLands back to health & rebuilding trust with my community on $DESO.
I apologized to my community & gifted my top NFT Holders some free $DESO and I redesigned my sales model to align with the upcoming launch of $FOCUS in mid September. Since coming back from the dead a couple weeks ago, $NomadLands has recorded 16 sales since (which I'm quite proud of considering the founder of this blockchaon was just arrested 🤣 it's good to know some of us aren't giving up & I'm forgiven) I was able to distribute a decent amount of $DESO from my earnings to my community today & I intend to do this every month.
I also began a project on Solarplex called SolarFrens. I will discuss this project and my goals with it in a later blog post.
I am aware that $DESO & Solarplex are not exactly the premier marketplaces to Mint NFTs due to a small user base but I'm devoted to creating on a platform that values decentralization as well as social networking. After all, what is art without a story. I can share anything about myself with my community on a social network & I can also share profits at ease on the platforms which is important to me.
Anyways guys, I'm gonna have dinner & unwind for the day. I wanted to post this update not just to share my experiences but also so i can look back and reflect on this later. I write intimately for this reason, to go back and reflect, and to show people something other than a superficial personality I've created for the purpose of selling art. Have a great night BULB fam 👽👌✌️
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