This morning, I habitually glanced at the market and discovered a rather heart-wrenching fact.

Some altcoins have now dropped below the lows of the bear market in 2022. Coins like DOT, ETC, SAND, and ATOM, which were relatively popular back then, are now performing disappointingly—lower than their lowest point three years ago.
Looking at BTC, OKB, and BNB, their prices have long surpassed the peaks of the last bull market. This is probably what is referred to as the "value screening mechanism" at work.
Time is a cruel touchstone. If you had bottomed out SAND on this day in 2022 and held it for a full three years until now, your account would still show a loss of over 70%. But if you had chosen OKB, BNB, or BTC back then, you would now be holding at least 3 to 5 times the return.
The market can be quite paradoxical sometimes — you think you're making a head start, but you're actually stepping into a pit; you think you're moving slowly, yet you end up at the finish line. Choosing is really more important than just putting in effort.