What do rabbits and Bitcoin have in common?

Bear with me - or bunny with me, if you like.

Picture this. You're in the Arctic Circle, and the last of the blueberries have gone. The wolve are howling, and the lake is frozen over. You've set snares, but haven't had any protein for a week - in fact, all you've managed is lichen stew. One morning, you wake up, and in your snare you find a rabbit. It's even better than Christmas - this could mean you win five hundred thousand dollars. Man, if there's any reason to gush on camera, crying with gratitude and grinning from bunny ear to bunny ear, this moment is it. Besides, not only that, you get a great rabbit scarf out of it.

Not the bunny featured on Alone Series 6

Okay, not my scenario, and if you've watched Season 6 of Alone, you'll know what I'm talking about. Man, the gushing. I mean, I get it - if you're starving, see a rabbit in your snare is sure worthy of a pretty darn happy reaction - but to go from that to imagining a penthouse, champagne and dancing girls? Whoooaaah... steady on. Because it's equally likely that this fluffy little critter could be your last bunny.

Since that brilliant moment of television, we've adopted the bunny as a warning of being too excited. You know, like when bitcoin hits 70,000 AUD and you can see paying off your mortgage, quitting work and getting out the champagne and the dancing girls. It's easy to do, right? When things are looking 'up', you can project that to the best possible scenario, and when they're down, the future can look absolutely dismal. Worse, is when the Bunny of Apparent Fortune arrives and another one doesn't hop on by when you thought they were going to (what's the collective noun for a group of bunnies?), or, you realise that the meat on dat bunny ain't gonna feed you for the rest of the month, after all.

Not the Bunny of Bitcoin either

Cue tears, disappointment, and general harumphing.

That is, unless you know about the Bunny of Apparent Fortune.

This is the kind of beast that you are totally allowed to get excited about, and feel hopeful, and stroke it's little bunny ears and say thankyou for coming my way, I love you, you ROCK the whole HIVE of bunnies - or gaggle, or fluffball, or whatever the collective noun for bunnies is, over. Now we have met and are able to recognise The Bunny, we can remind each other: 'don't get too excited yet, honey, it's just a bunny' or 'remember the bunny?'.

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It's a reminder to keep in the back of our mind at least a little equanimity.

It's a reminder to understand that life is full of bunnies on swings and roundabouts, on rollercoasters and flashing in pans, bunnies that are here today and gone tomorrow. We can enjoy their bunniness whilst they are here, but we don't hinge all our life's joy in them.

As some famous bunny once said in the Bunnapada:

Touched by happiness and then by suffering, the sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.”

Okay that might have been the Buddha in the Dhammapada, but don't let the truth get in the way of a good extended metaphor.

Perhaps we could also summon a little Pema Chodron:

“To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.”

It's fine the Bunny of Bitcoin bounced upwards this week - we sold a wee bit to put into a project, but we didn't quite pay off the mortgage. No need to get depressed about the fall - the bunny'll be back.

Easy bunny come, easy bunny go.

No bunnies were harmed in the making of this post. This post is dedicated to the memory of Bun, who died just before the pandemic, which was sad, but was replaced with a puppy, which was not sad. She was a fine rabbit, if a little deaf, and fond of biting, and everyone loved her dearly.

With Love,

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