To me NFT stands for No Formal Training. I am a 36 yr old man. To quote Tyler Durden "a middle child of history, with no great depression, and no great war, my great war is a spiritual war, and my great depression.... my life." Granted the entire three and a half decades I've spent on this earth have not been completely in vain or depressing. I've won a bit. But mostly lost. I've spent most of my life trying to live up to a definition of who I was as described by society, companies, governments, schools, and even my family and friends. People do that, we define our peers and put them in boxes. It's more comfortable that way. NFT was a way out of that box, a way of defining myself on my own terms.
No Formal Training was a way of defining how I learned music, just by doing it, figuring it out by myself, no instructor, no app, or youtube course. It was something I did on the side to keep myself sane honestly. Through countless oil field jobs, a short lived career as a machinist/software engineer, and an embarrassing stint as a fitness instructor. I always played music. It would remind me that I wasn't completely broken, bc I could hear myself getting better, and as long as I was progressing at something I wasn't completely lost.
To most of the internet/world NFT stands for a non-fungible token, digital content that cannot be copied or altered, something unique. Where my definition and theirs overlap is uniqueness, you can't learn originality through coursework or formal education. It's something innate, something within all of us. A human life, the human mind, is innately unique. In a sense we are all non-fungible tokens with no formal training needed. Both forms of NFT give us something the powers that be have been trying to hide.....power.
Anyone that has been paying attention can tell that there is something happening in the world, a revolution of sorts, and a big part of it is playing out online. I am no computer programmer, web design analyst, geopolitical economic expert, or even all that highly educated, but I have been paying attention. For most of my life I have been frustrated with my lot in life, angry about the rules and regulations placed upon me that I had to contend with to even exist in society. All of that is changing, has changed, and its even described in its name DeFi - Decentralized Finance - defy, defiance....I love it.
I'm saying all of this to let you know that the war is over and we the meek are winning. I have dealt with depression and self doubt my entire life. I know what it feels like to have "those thoughts", like you can't go on. What I'm trying to say is that you can, "don't try, do" - Bukowski, DeFi them, use your NFT to change your world. As a 36 yr old male I am the absolute typical gamer. I know how easy and usually pretty fun it is to hide in a virtual world. We don't have to hide anymore, peek outside and take a look, the future is bright. But don't get me wrong don't throw out the gaming all together, it's a great way to keep your mind sharp, especially if it has a legitimate ranking system so you can track your skill level, and for some, gaming is an NFT, so game on!!
Keep up the fight for the revolution in your virtual worlds, but don't forget to unplug every once in a while and smell the roses, you'll be happy you did. I hope you enjoy the music as much as I do, see you guys around the matchmaking lobbies, keep strong and DeFi the system, Eneftee, over and out.
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