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I want some advice, encouragement or even ridicule if possible, and mostly to just share my story of failure.

I'm poor with a poor dumb family. I worked for three years saving my spare money to accumulate 10k USD when someone told me to "worst thing you can do with money is save and sit on it". True words I still think. Another friend told me to get into crypto and that was back in November. I bought in heavily at around 5.5k BTC when there was the "flippening" scare as I thought it was my chance. I was not an investor or a trader. I thought BTC was something I just held. Then I proceeded to trade altcoins back and forth until my 10k was almost 24k. I felt like I was going to make it and was on track to becoming a homeowner. Rather than meeting real traders and getting good advice I just listened to the euphoric crypto traders who thought that ride would never end. Now through various bad decisions and a few thankfully good trades, my 10k is now 4k, and I realize I've really fucked up my life for the future, and the hope I would be the one in my family to get us out of poverty are gone. For the next decade atleast. At 32 I don't have much hope that I'll make it.

I kind of just want someone to tell me that 10k isn't alot in the grand scheme of things. Or that things will be ok. Something. Even familiar ridicule might be nice, because I feel pretty bad as a holder of an asset that's likely going to die more, and whom I doubt will allow me to break even. Last year has been emotionally troubling, I haven't been able to find mental peace for a year. I thought I was safe since I bought back before December, but boy was that wrong. Anyway there's some poor dumb anons uninteresting story.