The blockchain just got congested again earlier, and I was staring at that string of "queue numbers" in the mempool, which felt just like waiting for food delivery: you think you ordered, and it will arrive, but actually it first gets shoved into the pool, squeezed among a bunch of similar orders, whoever tips more gets served first... then you start questioning life: did I give too little gas, was I cut in line by someone else, or was I simply used as MEV material.

Recently, everyone’s been criticizing validators for making too much profit and unfair ordering, and I can understand—after all, when my swap is stuck, every second on the screen feels like burning money. Anyway, I’m not impulsively adding to my position anymore: if it gets congested, I just close the transaction first, write down the slippage, maximum loss, and acceptable failure price, and if I still want to trade after 5 minutes, I’ll try again... otherwise, I get carried away trying to "add a bit more gas," and it ends up being "adding more again"... Forget it, greed is greed, don’t treat yourself like an ATM.