Bulls and bears are part of crypto and will always be, although it always feels awful whenever we are approaching bear market because your investment will drop alot, i.e if you are holding any assets when the bear arrives, but on the other hand, it gives an opportunity for new investors to buy and also for old investors to buy at low price, bear market has its good side and bad side, only smart people knows how to take advantage of it.
I believe without going down there is no going up, without going up there is no going down. In order for bitcoin to survive it has to go any direction, let's assume we start with up, it needs to drop eventually from that up because people eventually need to sell, if you are not selling it, and nobody is selling it, there is no sellers at all, then who buys it? And how could you say you have a profit?
After all if you do not sell it is fake profit, you can't use it, it is useless, you basically lost all of your investment never to see it again if you NEVER sell, still a long term holder is good, but never sell is not option, so when people start to sell, it will drop and that's normal. On the other side, if it goes up, and nobody buys, that means it will keep going down more and more until someone buys, and that will crash the price so much that if nobody buys then it is zero, so it needs to go up eventually.