Just got my mom into crypto and explained the market as best I could, she shared a hodl poem with me from the 1800s.

This is an abridged version of a poem called "If" by Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936 (potentially the world's first hodler). I think it's incredible how accurate it is to crypto and FUD in general, even though it was written a century ago. We're all taking our chances on some coins and some big "ifs". Hope you enjoy it...

If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on".