One of these days, I was sitting on a couch, deeply engrossed in a video of one of the talks by Andreas Antonopoulos. He was talking a lot in support of Bitcoin, and he couldn’t hide his excitement and used a few flowery words to describe the future of worlds with Bitcoin.

What I didn’t notice was that my father was observing both Andreas and myself. His reaction after the video ended was, “I’ve been hearing about this bitcoin. To me, this video is nothing but a marketing of a product”.

I reacted rather snappily, “whose product do you think it is?”

He said “maybe his, or he may be working for the maker of this product”.

I reacted with a sense of pride as if I was Satoshi himself, “nobody owns the Bitcoin, dad. There’s no company that made it.”

Well, the interesting conversation went on for the next one and half hours. I realized he’s still quite open-minded for a 70 years old person who has seen the world largely to be unfair. But he’s also open to the fact that one can never make the world perfectly ‘fair’.

A lot my father’s statements actually made a lot of sense, such as his confidence in saying that 'speculation won’t work for long if there’s no utility'. I had to give him examples like El Salvador. I shared my opinions on governments and corporate companies being the major hurdle to turn bitcoin’s utility. And so on. But the most complex question was, "Imagine Bitcoin is still fully accepted and adopted, what happens once there is no fiat money, and only Bitcoin? How do we set the value of this new currency and what do we set it against?" I had to say I would come back on this.

Nature is very transparent. It keeps changing in front of our eyes. Just because we do not know the change, (or we do not see the change or understand the change) doesn’t mean we can keep the change from happening. The change waits for nobody. Those who realize this in an experiential way, would join the flow with less friction. I would like to be one of them.

If I have to describe human life in a simple statement — it is all about the 1% of leaders/creators and 99% of the followers/consumers. This is, in a way, a terrible perspective because it is too demotivating and too simplistic to be acceptable for us who strive on complexities and self-made complications. But the positive side of it is that one has the choice. I am trying to exercise that choice.

Today, we are reminded of the basics of nature -- adapt or disrupt, but there is no third choice. Either adapting or disrupting, the one who does this consciously will have a life of less friction and I am making my baby steps towards this ease.