You and me have different goals in mind. I am in for the long term while you are satisfied with a small jackpot. The reinvestment allowed me to hash today 21x faster than 1 year ago and to earn ~1/3 of my initial investment this month. From what you are saying you have stopped hashing and you have moved along. I'm not interested in that.
Difficulty now: Aug 19 2014 23,844,670,039 170,686,797 GH/s
Difficultly 1 year ago: Aug 24 2013 65,750,060 470,657 GH/s
As a ratio: 23,844,670,039/65,750,060 = ~362
So difficulty has gone up 362 times, but your hash power has only gone up 21 times.
You are hashing at roughly 1/17th the equivalent rate from a year ago.
Stopping hashing and keeping the money would seem to have been the better outcome.
As someone else posted, this looks like a perfect example of chasing diminishing returns.