I got nothing better to write currently. Not that I don't have any idea in writing anything, but my mind was distorted with many other things that is related to Steemit politics. There's whale war going on, taking either side would put us between the crossfire, say one thing good about 1 side will be bad for the other side. There's great development in local support groups, but also seeing some Steemians being left out. There are people who whining about why they wrote so damn long with no upvote, where people who does a cheap photography post got very big payout. I don't have an absolute answer for them, neither do I have an answer for myself.
And on I continue to search, accumulating my hard earned crypto day in day out. I started to notice, there's this difference with "crypto" and "cryptocurrency". As #teammalaysia group calling for a small gathering in KL, I was one of the earliest to sign up, paid my 5 steem to attend the meet. That point of time, Steem was about 3$, but towards the meet, steem price was 8$. I heard people started to complaint about the meet was being overcharged. There's even 1 party crasher came ask me whether can he get into the meet without paying and he doesn't wanna eat the food. I was stunt by such comment. I understand if he's not aware that were having a meet, I don't mind to get him register on the spot since he's already at the meeting place. But what surprised me was the comment by that person, that he said his steem is hard earned steem, he's not going to simply spend that. I was like, holy crap! Which means I earned my crypto easily? Everybody is paying the same price, what makes him so special? He crashed the party anyway despite the disagreement. May be next time we should hire armed security at the front to prevent this kind of situation, ofcourse pay with Steem. Hehe.
Anyway, now I started to realize, people are being overly obsessed with cryptocurrency. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I don't like crypto, but to directly associate it with currency is a big taboo to me. When we compare the crypto value with currency, then we will be started to worry whether it's the right time to sell/buy. It's the mentality that matters. Since I joined in August 2017(mind me I'm not active until end of November), I have never really paying much attention to the currency value of how much it worth. Put it this way, when you're playing games over the Internet, you earned some virtual money in the game, will you be thinking of how much does it worth? If you're going to stay in the game, power up! Use whatever resources you have, continue to power up yourself so you can fight with your enemy or to empower your ally. Wait a minute, so when is the right time to withdraw? You got so much of virtual money in the game? Well there's no right or wrong timing. When you need to withdraw, you gotta do it regardless. All you need to worry is find the right buyer, agreed upon the right price to buy your virtual money.
My advice to my friends in Steemit. Come on, take it easy. It's not like we are getting paid over Facebook posts previously. We have this virtual money, treat it as we are in the game. Forget about the currency value. Until you reach a point where you decide to use some of the virtual money for something you wanted to buy either in the game or in this reality world.
I'm grateful to have this local community #teammalaysia supporting me over the past 3 months. And I also thankful to have friends like 