I spent five years away from friends and family, because whenever I bring up how crypto can be life-changing they always discourage me, maybe because I lost some money to few trades and I was not that good at trading at the time, I got mad one day and I left the city and move to another city, because they won't let me be and they felt I will waste my life away.
Today, I now own a home and a nice ride, I was able to get married and settle down, but now they feel like they made a huge mistake for not listening to me. I believe this was the best decision I've ever made, I was able to gathered some BTC in 2019 to 2020 bear market and also with the help of my trading skills.
Only God knows what would have happened if I never left, my mind kept telling me to venture into crypto at the time and even my own family shut the idea down.
I don't know why and now they are asking for my help, I have to do it since they are my family, and even my friends are asking for help, would you help your discouraging friends if you are in my shoe? They were my friends, but not anymore, I believe friends should be supportive of each other, am I wrong.
If you are a crypto newbie, make sure you set your mind on your goals, do not be discouraged by anyone, people can't see the future, we are not gods or demigods who can read the future, do not listen to any naysayers.
This was a very smart move you made as at then,some friends who see that you may eventually get rich from what you are doing might just intentionally want to discourage you so that you won't be above them financially.Life is all about choice,and only those who have decided to take a strong decision on the goal will definitely get the desired result from life.The most important thing I saw in your post Op is that you believed in what you were doing,you believed it will definitely pay you someday,that was why you stigged to it despite the way they discouraged you from doing it.I have learnt from this your story today,and it's also a message to newbies to also stig to what ever they believe in nomtter what people say about it.