Just now, I was stuck again in the mempool queue, watching my transaction feel like riding the subway during rush hour: first thrown into a pile of pending transactions, miners/ordering algorithms choosing who gets to go first, basically based on how much "toll" you're willing to pay and whether there are more lucrative priority transactions. During congestion, the most annoying thing isn't slow confirmation, but uncertainty—there's a chance it gets included in a few minutes, or it might get pushed down the line, eventually expiring or failing, wasting some fee in the process, which really messes with your mindset.

Recently, when cross-chain bridges get hacked or oracles report errors, the entire chain suddenly starts "waiting for confirmation," and everyone prefers to be slow rather than the unlucky first one rushing in. To put it simply, congestion isn't fate; it's a game of probabilities: paying higher fees = increasing the chance of being included in a block; stubbornly sticking with low fees = increasing the chance of being left out. I'm now honestly splitting into two small transactions to test the waters... I get nervous when TVL drops, but I get even more anxious when the network gets congested.