Lately, I’ve been feeling a little bummed out.
I had a voraciously happy appetite for Steem and was really ON it to make this place way better and totally interacting with a shit ton of people on here.
But somehow that has fizzled out a bit.
And I think it’s because of a few different things.
Working thirty hours a week has just killed my energy.
This crazy super bloody blue eclipse moon shit has got my mental and emotional states a little fuzzy and unstable.
Mix in the stress from having to move house and the simple fact that my posts aren’t making as much as they ‘used’ to.
I know, I know… It’s not about the $$ but it somehow serves as the cherry on top of a small shitpile specially cos I am transitioning to fulltime Steemiehood
It all just gets a little wobbly and muddled up.
It’s the cracking open of my whole being so there is new space to grow.
But it just feels a little shitty.
A little scratchy.
A little why can’t I just feel easy
But as always, nearly clockwork, the world decides to throw me a massive bone in the form of extremely inspiring texts that lift my soul up for a tiny moment and remind me of the magnificence that is this life.
And I’d like to share them with you.
Because you deserve to immerse yourself in what they are saying and they deserve your eyeballs.
A LOVE LETTER TO LIFE BY VANESSA FLORENCE
Excerpt :
Thank you for RELENTLESSLY loving me.
And I know now for this love to be really next level, you need my cooperation.
Because if I trust you this can actually be a collaboration rather than a battle.
To know in my bones that everything you give me is a gift.
To sign off on every parcel and package of love you deliver.
To open to receive each of them fully.
The painful gifts
The sweet gifts
The scary gifts
The tender gifts
The bliss and the shit gifts.
All of them.
Vanessa is actually one of my most favourite human beings on this planet even though we have never met or even had a proper conversation.
This woman is pure and raw in all of her glory.
The good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly.
ALL of it.
And it’s a mega inspiration!
Thank you for birthing this masterpiece my dear.
[Hae-Joo] The Steem Blockchain: A Networking, Media-Consuming, Content-Producing Virtual Chakra. by
Excerpt :
That's what the incentive system on this platform is bringing out of people... A belief in a novel type of hope, that we could actually sustain ourselves in life; in an economy that revolves around the circulation of thoughts and ideas, analysis and creativity, experience, authenticity, community...
This is what has up to now been previously unimaginable. Is this belief that an incredibly dynamic group of human beings, who would otherwise have absolutely no interest in connecting with one another, can now come together and deal with each other completely directly, with no other coercive environments like "an office" or some corporate or societal "institution" or platform, with all the consequences that entails...
Now we have a virtual space that brings us all together and allows us to learn from each other, share with each other, and grow together into something unique and brilliant.
This piece was a deep reminder of the magical shit we are doing on here.
We are pioneers.
We are creating history.
Doing something on here which was inconceivable to even put into practice before.
Thank you 
And there are two people on here that deserve a special mention.
We have the opportunity here for EVERYONE to thrive and that is not going to happen when we are stingy bastards that hoard onto our $$ and only create and do things that benefit only ourselves.
This is NOT the way to do it.
Creating projects that everyone can benefit from in a healthy and positive way is the way forward.
Create more, share more, everyone is good and happy.
I am blessed to have your creative genius in my life and I am already looking forward to the comedy vids you’ll be making (soon) in the future.
I leave you with one thing and one thing only.
It is only by embracing my deep negative shit that I can fully enjoy the happy woah good positive shit.
It’s a ying yang kinda thang.
Here’s to raw openness about the shitty feelings I am having.
Here’s to healing through writing.
Here’s to good people, cos without you,the world wouldn’t such a great place.
BIG love,
Ashley
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