Hey Brad you write well enough and express your sentiments in a heartfelt way. There are other good folks in the same boat as you and hopefully for them, they are learning the lessons you are now learning. At times, I have had similar feelings, but awhile back, when gold and silver were deep into their now 2 plus year bear market and SFMI and the other miners were crashing into depression territory, I asked a wise old precious metal futures trader what he did after he lost $15 million after the 1980's Precious Metals crash and he said to me: "I did some soul searching" !! So that's what I've done and you seem to have enough wisdom about yourself to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and dust yourself off and move on while continuing to read the PM tea leaves and keeping one eye on the miners and SF. As old Warren Buffett was fond of saying: " In the short run the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it's a weighing machine" and we know from history that War Eagle Mountain is heavy with gold and silver. So unless you've completely given up on SF or can't afford to do so, average down your cost basis a bit like old dog Pic and others are doing and one day the fundamentals or geopolitical events will overcome the technicals and the metals and mining stocks will soar again, but that time is not of our choosing. And in the meantime stay warm and dry! Khaki