It's My First Steemit Pay Ever
January 25, 2018. This is a significant day in my Steemit journey! I just got my first ever Steemit payout ever! Hooray!!!
I waited for a bit to have it withdrawn because I was waiting for SBD to do well. I thought it would help to leave SBDs in when it's kinda low and withdraw when it's doing fairly well. I asked the help of 
I was able to get 30 SBDs for my first payout, it isn't much but it's more than enough to paint a smile on my face and enough to share it with people dear to me like my mom and siblings. After all, charity begins at home. BUT it doesn't end there. So, hopefully, in the future, I'd be able to share more to people in the community and different causes that I am passionate about, like my fellow dialysis patients. I will take it slow and one goal at a time. I have proven to myself that Steemit is indeed rewarding and could help me make my life's visions a reality.
Before I got my first payout, I did not have anything in mind to spend it with really, but I need to withdraw some to show my friends how legit the platform is since they are asking me for some proof. Them skeptics everywhere! I don't want to waste this money on just random stuff, I want it to go to someone who'd know what to do with it. So, I thought of giving most of it to my mom. I got 30SBDs and it's worth 9, 637 Pesos in the Philippines. I gave most of it to my mom because she'll sure to keep it and spend it for my family's needs. I gave her 8,000 Pesos, much to her surprise! I'll narrate below how she responded when I gave her the money. She was shocked by Steemit!
I got the money around 1 pm in Cebuana Lhuillier. Thanks to the ever helpful
Mama: Where did you get this money?
Me: Online, ma. I posted some topics in Steemit.com and earned from them. I earned around 9, 000. I kept the rest for pocket money.
Mama: Are you sure? You don't even have internet in your room... What is this Steemit? Is it here in the Philippines or abroad...? Why does it pay so much...?
Me: You know I can get my way around that. Steemit is worldwide.
Mama: I do not believe you, where did you get all these money?
Me: Ma, I worked for it online in Steemit.
Mama: Do you have a job now?
Me: No, it's more enjoyable than a job. More rewarding, too.
Mama: Tell me more about it then, are you paid at an hourly rate or are you paid monthly.
Me: I think it will come weekly but it depends on my quality of work.
Mama: Who pays you...? Where does the money come from...? Is it a reputable company...? Is that legal...?
Me: Ma, I am sick, I'm not gonna be practicing to be a crook now. I'll explain to you everything at home, it's a long story.
Mama: You better tell me about it. I will not let you compromise your health over something I know nothing about. You have to sleep. You can't miss your meals and your meds...
Me: Yes, ma. I am aware of what I can and cannot do. Just call me later when you're not busy I will try to explain. It's kind of technical like Bitcoin and stuff so it's not easy to explain it.
Mama: I still don't believe you, be sure to thank the person who gave you money. Your boss or whoever.
Me: It's not just one person, ma. There's many of them. But don't worry there's no pimping or robbing a bank kind of thing. I worked for it.
Mama: Well, okay. I hope you enjoy what you're doing, just don't compromise your health, you cannot be stressed. Thank you for this. I did not expect you to earn this from online.
Me: That's a small thing, ma. Thank you. Pray I earn more...
That conversation left me with a realization about how I keep on missing to thank my mom when she leaves my daily allowance in my room in the morning while I'm asleep. Maybe I should always text her to thank her from now on. I realized this when I saw it in her eyes how sincerely grateful she is that I gave her most of what I earned in Steemit.
I left her workplace with this feeling of satisfaction. It has been awhile since I was able to give my mom money. I have been sick with kidney failure and unemployed for a year and a half. The conversation was both awkward and funny. I think I caught her by surprise since I really do not visit her at work often. It was awkward because she had a lot of questions and I did not know how to answer them since we did not have the time, also my mom is just moderately technical. Her knowledge about technology is MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel and playing solitaire. She rarely opens Facebook, so I'm pretty sure I'll have to take time explaining Steemit to her in the next few days. I'll do it slowly, who knows she might be interested to join the platform.
My Mom Is One Super #Untalented-mama
I have been trying to complete my post about 
My mom has been my pillar and support since ever. She got widowed when I was 7 and we were four kids, she has been super in giving us a good life just by herself. My mom is a strong woman, I am what I am, a tough cookie because she has been one herself. She has lead an exemplary character of strength, elegance and wisdom. Although she has been always busy with her work and studies as I was growing up, we have very rare conversations that marked in my head. I have nothing negative to say against her. When I was young, before I became a mother myself, I thought my mom had a lot of shortcomings. There are many times she couldn't make things for me, for us, her children. She would take time to explain things to us but we never understood them then. Sometimes, I would rebel because of the many things I did not understand. But now, looking back, I see how much she tried. She hit and missed things as a mom, as a parent, but I know God knows she tried. I remember when my dad died, I was seven, she had to explain to me the concept of death and she struggled to say the words to make me understand the situation at a young age. During the first Christmas without our dad, she had to let me understand that we won't be celebrating Christmas, how she told Santa to skip our house because we were mourning. Looking back, now that I am a mom myself, this gives me this sting in my heart. What a life she had raising us alone, all of us, for so long. I could not possibly repay her with anything than to just be a good daughter in anyway I can.
In my adult life, I have made a life of my own, most of the times away from my mom, away from home. We rarely talk, mostly just phone calls. I'm a single mom and used to be a career woman. I had a wonderful career for a decade even if I am a single mom, that's because my mom helped me raise my daughter. She has been a very hands on grandmother to my only child.
Life changed when I got sick. I never imagined I would be a burden to my mom again. I went home when I got diagnosed of kidney failure. I had to be in and out of the hospital many times before I finally have to depend on dialysis as a life-support treatment. My mom has always been there since day one that I got sick. I could no longer count how much she has spent for my hospitalization and medicines. In fact, she pays my sessions now, without questions, without conditions, you will never hear her say anything about it. No complaints, no nothing. But I know she's having a tough time with it because her salary is not enough to pay all my needs, just my needs alone.
My mom is keeping a promise. Before I got into dialysis, I was in the ICU for 2 days because I was having difficulty breathing. My oxygen saturation was down to 40%, I was dying. She came in the second day when I was pretending to be sleeping, she touched my head and caressed my hair and she uttered:
I don't mind even if you'll have to depend on me for life, I just want you to live. I cannot afford to lose another child.
We already lost our eldest to cardiac arrest 2 years ago at a young age of 37. One of mom's worst heartbreaks was losing him.
My mom is selfless. She deserves all the love from me and my siblings because she has not been anything but selfless for all of us. I wish to be like her in the eyes of my own daughter because she's one super #untalented-mama!
Thank you, Steemit and Everyone Awesome In It
I'd like to thank Steemit, for making it possible for me to help my family once again. I kept 1, 637 pesos in my own pocket, I'll be thinking of things I can spend it with so I'll have a remembrance or souvenir of my first ever Steemit pay. In the future, there will be something to remind me of this milestone in my Steemit journey.
I'd like to thank my ever supportive friends in the #steemitachievers family for all the help and support. Last but not the least, I would like to thank
Please support
If you want to give him witness voting decisions on your behalf, on that same page type in "surpassinggoogle" in the second box as a proxy.
Support his other brainchild projects like #untalented, #steemgigs and #teardrops. Thank you!