I Started With One Apple Share a Month

I started with one Apple share a month.

That was it.

When I first bought the stock, at the end of 2008, Apple was around $3.05 a share.

I was not doing anything grand.
I just kept buying one share every month.

There were times I wanted to sell.

When the price went up, I would look at it and think, maybe I should just take the gain now.
It was tempting.

And then there were all the other stories people talk about.

I heard people say they made money on Tesla.
I heard about people getting in early on this stock or that stock.
I heard enough of those stories to feel that usual thing people feel.

Maybe I should switch.
Maybe I am missing something.
Maybe I am being too slow.

But I stayed with Apple for a reason.

It was not random.

My family used Apple.
People around me used Apple too.
MacBooks.
iPhones.
It was everywhere in ordinary life.

Because of that, I trusted Apple.

It was not some distant company I only knew as a stock symbol.
It was something I kept seeing with my own eyes.

So I kept buying one Apple share a month.

I wanted to see what would happen if I stayed with one thing long enough.

Month after month, I bought the share.

When the price dropped, I wanted to buy more.
When the price went up, I would hesitate.

That was the strange part.

The same stock could pull two different feelings out of me.

Part of me wanted to lock in the gain and get out.
Another part of me wanted the price to stay down a little longer so I could keep buying more.

Even with all that, I kept buying the one share.

Then enough time went by, and one day I looked back.

When I first bought the stock at the end of 2008, Apple was around $3.05 a share.

Now it is around $252.82.

I bought one share every month from December 2008 until now, so now I have 208 shares.

At today’s price, those 208 shares are worth about $52,586.56.

That is the part that gets me.

Not only the number.

When I looked back at all that time, I think I finally understood what compound really means.

So I am still buying one Apple share a month.

Not overnight.

But over time.

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