Don't you just wish you came in sooner?
Are you also one of those people who say some people are lucky because they invested earlier than us and got rich?
To be honest, I do wish I entered the cryptocurrency market sooner than I did.
But look, we are only saying this because most of us entered the market just in time before the last bull run and now experiencing a long bear market.
When the next bull run comes, let us just say for example 2022, here's what new players in 2022 will have to say:
"Those people (referring to 2017 investors) are just lucky, they got in early".
.......the cycle continues
The reality is many people said they wish they bought Bitcoin in summer at $4 or $5k when man people first noticed it, but they didn't. Just like they aren't buying Bitcoin at current prices ($3,800). You can tell by the charts that most people who got in at the peak of 2013 when it was $1k panic sold, and likely never bought Bitcoin again (until it was maybe over $1k). Not forgetting that most people who did know about BTC didn't have the confidence to buy and hodl.
Now that we have seen yet another aggressive bear market, I believe it gives more hope to investors that history will again repeat itself. It's easy to say "it's different this time", compared to previous bear markets, but the fundamentals say differently - it's looks pretty much the same; infrastructure growth, continued transaction/atm adoption and a stabilizing hash rate. Those who wished they got in early, instead of getting in now, would of sold too early anyway.
We can always point to hindsight, but it doesn't mean we can go back in time and change our decisions

Like many techy people I first learnt about Bitcoin in 2011 when a friend was mining it, I lived with crypto developers in 2014 even, but only finally "took the plunge" in mid 2017, many years later.