Now this is all a bit personal and full of secrets. Still if you want people to understand you when you have gone then it is necessary.
I reckon I got Covid at the beginning. It landed in Europe in a place called Les Contamines. An English doctor who had travelled to Singapore or somewhere was diagnosed. The thing is Les Contamines is 5 km from where we have our place in France. We were there at the time and seemingly everyone was coughing in the supermarkets and on the chairlifts. I had flu like symptoms so much so that when we returned to the UK we actually ‘self isolated’ as per government instructions. We were not that poorly and soon we began to ask questions of all the data we were being told and how the whole thing was being managed. Suffice it to say that living with a scientist, who has the ability to interrogate facts made the whole process very uncomfortable, as at least a significant percentage of the stuff we were told was misrepresented. I reckon I have had the thing twice more too courtesy of my grandchildren.
Anyway the reason I mention all this is it nearly drove me to madness. I thrive on contact and people. Adventure is my lifeblood and there I was locked up and when not locked up I was cut off. I was just desperate and what was worth my cries for help fell on deaf ears. I would call supposedly good friend to ‘talk. No one listened and many simply told me how well they were doing. It was deparate.
So in the end I decided to focus on my investments. I put together a portfolio of super growth stocks. Amazon,Tesla,Lumina,Moderna,Alibaba,Tencent, around 40 stocks or so. In truth my portfolio was built around some of the best investors in the worlds ideas. I simply went along for the ride. At one point I had made over £2million pounds in my ‘Covid portfolio’. I can prove it if you really need to know. I bought some toys, a motorbikes, top of the range Tesla, my daughter a horse lorry and a few other things. I remember one day well for a booming stock market meant I had made £80,000 on the day!!. of course I could not tell anyone, other than Liz of course. The thing was we just sat there getting richer with no ability to properly spend the stuff. Weird was not in it.
I am not a pauper by any means but this ‘extra’ could have been very ‘helpful’ on the longer term. But guess what Covid went ‘bi bis’ and my shares started to fall. I was stubborn as I thought things would come right but they didn’t and absent the above mentioned toys I gave it all back.
What to conclude from this? Well obviously if someone says ‘help’ at least do them the favour of listening, especially if they are a friend. Realise that “paper profits’ are just that and don’t rely on them. What ever you do realise that money in the bank or indeed in stocks and shares for that matter are just ‘digits’. It what you do with the digits that count!! So don’t die wondering if you make a few bob spend it!!
Tales of a Life Well Lived 