I have a number of glasses of unsweetened ice cold green tea on hot summer days, so I can't argue with that. While I like the taste of lemon, it upsets my stomach if I'm not careful with how much I have.
Just a suggestion but you may be interested in writing down the details of your winning trading system and get someone to code it up as a fully automated trading system. Not too expensive if you know a good coder. I have done just that and am currently up about 10 - 15 % per week.
I make a lot of refreshing tea at the hospice the past two weeks, I may have to start importing it from Ireland if I can't find a decent equivalent I brought several boxes but it is running low. English Twinings is ok-ish but everybody strongly prefers Lyons or Barry's. Irish people drink more tea per capita than any other nation so we know a bit about it. Thanks to the TSA for ripping my tea open and stealing a few handfuls. Did it a three years back. Initially semi-automated AI assisted. It works standalone but it needed a lot of capital however it is fairly fool proof. The past couple of months I have managed to get a break from trading as I was rather intense with 12-18 hours days since 2014. My bot works away, not very efficient unsupervised by it still brings in the bacon. Today we are working on making tiny and over elaborate signs for the garden at the hospice. e.g. I think this might be the beginning of a slide into idle rich madness.
I think our dialogue is coming from "touching a different part of an elephant", as in this ancient story posted here #2056 https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/in-search-of-god.308024/page-206 and so life is offering to us different experiences. I am sorry for your pediatrician neighbor... In my life, the doctors in Germany made a number of the wrong decisions which lea to the death of my mother.. so. , I certainly waiting for them to be sued... Another example was in Italy a doctor was taking patients with terminal illness and saved some of them... then it was discovered that his diploma was fake and he was persecuted. I never understand why? Instead of making him finish his degree in medicine and be thankful, because if he was able to save at least one life where the traditional medicine gave up, what is wrong with that? We are losing our mind in today world because forgetting the heart. A mind if left to be the governor is very dangerous, it feeds the ego. I did not know exactly how to address this our polar conversation, so left in the hands of Universe and as often the answers came in the form first of this interesting yoga-teacher and his new book "Warrior Pose: How Yoga(Literally) Saved My Life by Brad Willis, whos carrier remind me yours, there is even Columbia " From covering the front lines of the Gulf War to investigating Colombian drug lords to living with freedom fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan, war correspondent Brad Willis was accustomed to risk. But when mortal danger came, it was from an unexpected direction.............. At the pinnacle of his career, a broken back and failed surgery left Willis permanently disabled and ............." And I thought that top Richard Dennis we all own the possibility to know about trading accessible to everyone? Mr. Leo Melamed and The CME group made it accessible to everyone, but he was the first to show that it is possible without been local or Harward graduated? And to complete this discussion about true or not true certain healers etc, this beautiful dialogue from one of the most fascinating books came to me: “– But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth? – Man governs it himself, – Homeless angrily hastened to reply to this admittedly none-too-clear question. – Pardon me, – the stranger responded gently, – but in order to govern, one needs, after all, to have a precise plan for a certain, at least somewhat decent, length of time. Allow me to ask you, then, how can man govern, if he is not only deprived of the opportunity of making a plan for at least some ridiculously short period, well, say, a thousand years , but cannot even vouch for his own tomorrow? And in fact, – here the stranger turned to Berlioz, – imagine that you, for instance, start governing, giving orders to others and yourself, generally, so to speak, acquire a taste for it, and suddenly you get ...hem ... hem ... lung cancer ... – here the foreigner smiled sweetly, and if the thought of lung cancer gave him pleasure — yes, cancer — narrowing his eyes like a cat, he repeated the sonorous word —and so your governing is over! You are no longer interested in anyone’s fate but your own. Your family starts lying to you. Feeling that something is wrong, you rush to learned doctors, then to quacks, and sometimes to fortune-tellers as well. Like the first, so the second and third are completely senseless, as you understand. And it all ends tragically: a man who still recently thought he was governing something, suddenly winds up lying motionless in a wooden box, and the people around him, seeing that the man lying there is no longer good for anything, burn him in an oven. And sometimes it’s worse still: the man has just decided to go to Kislovodsk – here the foreigner squinted at Berlioz – a trifling matter, it seems, but even this he cannot accomplish, because suddenly, no one knows why, he slips and falls under a tram-car! Are you going to say it was he who governed himself that way? Would it not be more correct to think that he was governed by someone else entirely?” ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The master and Margarita
I heard this interesting one which might help you because it has helped me greatly. Not just from this quote but from Jesus. So I'll quote Blaise Pascal here: "What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself" I hope you find Him soon enough. Peace!
@Slartibartfast My trading has become too consistent, very hard to keep working at it some times. Mediation actually makes me feel worse, born with many challenges and often times simply don't understand people. Trading use to calm me, but much less, enjoyed it much more when I was not profitable. Trading just seems so …...not challenging enough? Lost ability to be happy for some reason. Have you considered getting into ranching, buy or lease 500 acres and raise organic or range fed cattle, this might not be on your bucket list but it will most definitely keep you thinking elsewhere, it large enough to occupy your time. Believe, you will get plenty of exercise. Am not into religions but very strong on God, talk often to Him, lost my beliefs for awhile till almost lost my life driving on icy road, had to stay their 24 hours till help arrived-gave me time to think what came first...the egg or the chicken and how did creature arrive? Whether one believes in evolution or not, the tiniest spec had to be developed by who? I hope you find your answers, life very tough.