I have terrible insomnia. It seems like forever since I have had a continuous block of sleep that has lasted more than a few hours. I sleep in a segmented system where I wake for a few hours and then generally go back to sleep. Over the years I have don a variety of things to pass the time. Many of the nights seem long and lonely.
Enter Steem
I am not sure that my 3:30 am postings have really been seen. It does not seem to be a high traffic time on the system but I have produced a few. It seems to be a good time to get on the system and do what you do on a social network, socialize. I would have to say that most of my commenting time comes early in the morning. It helps pass the time.
Research Time
Being awake at 3:30 seems to be an odd hour of the day. It is a time where it seems to be late to say that I am merely up late and to early to say that I am up early. There seems to be no one about and the quiet is almost deafening. All I hear is the snores from my wonderful better half. She sleeps so soundly while I tap tap tap at the keyboard.
I try to use this time to come up with various ideas for posts. 3:30 seems like a good time to get some research done for my posts. I have made many posts and some have done okay. I have used the proceeds to fund things in the real world. I have urged people to take long term view of the platform and have a work ethic like any other area in life.
Long Quiet Envy
This middle of the night stint also seems be the time that I strive for Steemit success. Perhaps because of the isolation of the night passage, I feel a little lonely, a little small. While I am accruing some steem it seems to be just trickling in. "Think" I say to myself, "I really want to see some success and do it with a cleaver article". "Why can't I be king for the day". So sitting here in the dark as I have done on so many occasions I find myself feeling a little small and a little discouraged. It won't last. I love to write. I took a break for a while but Steemit has brought me back to writing. So if nothing else it has brought me back to something that I get a different sort of real value from. I get paid in the satisfaction of doing something that I really enjoy. In the end I don't think anyone can ask for anything more. To say that I have gotten paid from doing something I enjoy is at this point some what of an understatement even if it has not all ways been in SBD.
So for those of you who spend their nights throwing keystrokes in search of that next great opus, here is to you. Write because you love too. It is enough reward to craft something with care. Take some satisfaction in a job well done.