Do you walk away with the idea that investing is easy after reading investment blogs? That all you have to do is to invest the money and the returns will roll in on a regular basis in the form of dividends? In a way, I am guilty of this as I subconsciously relegate blog posts on how to survive a bear market to the back. After all, who would be interested to read blog posts such as "How to survive a harsh winter" when the season now is summer? Investing is not always easy, especially during the depth of a bear market. No matter how vividly we describe the situation, it is difficult for the reader to appreciate it without experiencing one himself. I once have a colleague who remarked that my paper losses in stocks should not be painful, since the losses exist on paper only. One day, he ......