Late 2017 and early 2018 i was holding lots of coins and tokens from the ico's in that some i really trusted with solution and team (not only me most of crypto community trusted). Now this coins or token became nothing . But some projects i entered to sell for small margin profit these projects given profit . So holding token or coin for long term is meaningless.
It is not actually meaningless because in the span of time you were holding those coins, there might come a time that you see that there is still an improvement on the prices of those coins. It is just that it doesn't meet your expectations because you were still stuck on thinking and comparing the happenings on the year 2017 and early 2018.
There are lots of happenings that brought changes on the behavior of those coins when it comes to usage, importance that also affect its price which some or most of the coins you hold from 2017 to 2018 turns out to be invaluable anymore. But, not all coins are like that because there are still coins from those year that have still survived and make an improvement although it was a little bit far from the price expected, well at least you can still gain from holding those so it is not literally meaningless. Just be thankful enough if the coins you were holding do still have value or still undergoing improvement on its price because it is still an important detail that is in need to be notice.