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### Ownership is an illusion. We don't really own anything. Our house, our car, our partner, our children, our job, our money, even our body.

### If we permanently own something, no one can take that away from us. We can do whatever we want with it, anytime, permanently, forever.

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In that sense, a house or a car doesn't really belong to us. If we don't pay council rates, or rego- then we owe the government. And then if we don't pay them, it becomes a debt. Eventually our house, our car will be taken away from us. So really, we are just perpetually renting our house from the government. And we don't own the land either. Because when a new government takes over the old one, they may decide that the land belongs to them and not us.

Our jobs don't belong to us. Tomorrow the company owners can lay you off without any reason. They don't have an obligation to keep us or take care of us for the rest of our lives. Think from the perspective of the company owners and you will understand.

The money in our bank also doesn't really belong to us either. 2 years ago the Australian Dollar was stronger than the American Dollar. Today it has lost almost half of its value. And if an inadequate government decides to change their monetary policy, inflation kicks in, and our money will become toilet paper. Or if the bank goes bankrupt, we also lose everything.

Our loved ones don't belong to us as well. Everyone is entitled to their own life and decisions. Today you are mine. Tomorrow you leave me and I can't hold you back. Today you are my son and you listen to me. Tomorrow you are your own man, you take care of your own family and I won't have any control over you anymore.

When we realise that we don't own anything, we learn to let go and life becomes much lighter, easier. And you learn to love everyone around you equally, not just your loved ones, but strangers too.

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### It's not how much we are hoarding that matters, but the ability to regain what matters to us after we lose it. Once we are aware that we can rebuild and earn it back after it's gone, that's when we are invincible. And life becomes fully solid. Grounded.

### I hope you are going to be influenced positively after reading this. They are not my own copyrighted thoughts, because I don't own anything either. I am just a collection of observations of everything around me.

### So what do you think about cryptocurrencies and the way it changes the paradigm of ownership?
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