Friends rather than followers
I don't know about you, but when I joined Steemit I was here for the money, I was going to make enough to give up work and spend the rest of my life on an island in the sun writing pithy and interesting articles for loads of money.
Then something unexpected happened
I started to actually care about some of the people that I had started to follow. I've seen people blossom and grow here, there are some very good people here in Steemit and I have actually grown to care for them. I look forward to their posts and enjoying their opinions. I actually want to upvote and resteem and hope that they get on.
Some people have 4000 followers but no friends
I have seen a few people hitting the 4000 followers milestone and it amazes me that their milestone post makes less than a dollar and the Steemians doesn't think that there is anything wrong! I've posted about this before but numbers mean NOTHING I could go out on the street this morning and say hello to a thousand people and none of then would remember my name.
There is still money to be made here
Every so often I see one of my friends get into double digits and very occasionally I see a triple figure post and I am genuinely delighted for them.
Will I ever get my Island
I don't think that I'll be posting from that Island anytime soon but I'm happy reading some really interesting posts and meeting some quite amazing people.
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