Can you post your Bitcoin address?
I can also say I bought Bitcoin when the price was $1 and hold it until now, I bought Bitcoin when the price was $3K during Covid-19 and sold at $69K etc.
Op does not have to post their BTC address if they don't want to, it is bad for privacy, especially when the address holds a large amount of coins in it. I understand you feel that the story is made up, and you may be correct, i have also called out a lot of members for posting fake and made up stories of how they bough x amount of BTC and made y profits, but they don't have to lose their privacy to prove their story, that is if there is a 1% chance that the story is true.
Regardless if this story is made up or not, still OP is not obliged to post his BTC address just for authenticity. Note that we all encouraged everyone most particularly newbies to protect our privacy especially when it concerns our bitcoin storage. But here we are trying to break that rule.
Now, even myself I can't tell exactly if OP is telling the truth or not. But if he's actually lying, I guess he won't benefit from it either. If this post is only for merit phishing, then OP lacks some factors to make his post meritable.
It just gave me an idea to invest if you have the financial means to do so. You could be lucky or not but since it is Bitcoin we are talking about, potential is decent. There will always be times of such; lucky or good entry point and a bad one. No one guarantees which is best therefore your actions after your investment should matter more. If OP happened to invest in $22k then a decline lasted until now, did he do the right thing? Yes, as long as volume and demand is still there, the chance of market price recovery will also be present. If it happened to be corrected after his entry, and if he chooses to hold then same result will more likely to be expected. A lesson for the new ones to be firm of their decisions once they came to the idea of investing into this technology.
Yeah, there's always happiness over something that is gotten right.
so the question now is; How will you know the actual (right) time to buy Bitcoin?
The right time to buy is when you are ready to endure market price changes or the time you are ready to embrace the risk. There will always be time that ups and downs on its value will be observed and that will just be fine. The manner of either selling or still holding is what would determine whether it will be profit or not, on your investment.