Hard Work is a Lie

I worked for 200 days building something I believed in.

It took one second for everything to collapse.
This isn’t a video about quitting.

It’s about what happens when you do everything right — and still lose.
We grow up believing the success myth: that hard work guarantees results. That if we hustle enough and sacrifice enough, life will eventually be fair. But real life doesn’t work that way. Timing, luck, and forces we can’t control often decide the outcome.
This story isn’t really about a wall.

It’s about effort, failure, burnout, and that quiet moment when you ask yourself if all that work meant anything at all.
If you’ve ever worked for months or years on something that disappeared in a moment…

If you’ve ever felt one second too late…

This story is for you.
In the end, I learned something simple but powerful:

We don’t build because success is guaranteed.

We build because building is who we are.
Even when everything collapses, the instinct to start again never disappears.


To those who find themselves in the rubble, time and time again... let’s stay together.

   / @iamalterego  

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