You can't fake passion. - Barbara Corcoran

I'd rather say: it doesn't even make sense trying, Barbara.

We can't force an interest on ourselves. It has to and will find us.

There is actually no passion to be found playing small. When we focus on what excites us, what could stop us then?

Today I hit a legendary milestone on steemit: 3,000 followers and 71 reputation. It's time to be grateful, pensive and adventurous!

@surfermarly skating on a day with no waves (can you read the text on my shirt?)

The passion theory

I was 5 years old when I wrote my first short story.

It was 6 pages long and about a little girl that visited the corner shop in order to buy some groceries. The few vocabularies I knew to spell at that point of time were accompanied by colourful drawings.

Now - more than 30 years later - when I'm at my mom's house and dig out these old, dusty stacks of paper, I realize that this storytelling passion has been sleeping inside myself for ages.

After finishing school it fell a bit behind, since I found more pleasure in playing basketball than in filling papers.

However, it was always there.

As a teenager I had a great letterfriendship with my today's best friend. Back then (when emails were still not part of our lives) it was the only chance to keep us constantly updated since we didn't live in the same country. Today we know each other for 27 years and still laugh about these letters.

Then a couple of years later when I started to have boyfriends, they've always found some notes with lovely messages sticking around. It's a cute symbol of appreciation a spoken word may not achieve.

Writing has always been one of the most natural ways to express myself. Now steemit has reanimated that passion.

To me writing feels like a natural flow

Do what you love. You can't be best at something that you force on yourself.

Probably these 3,000 followers find pleasure in reading my stuff, because they recognize that everything I publish comes from the heart.

Now you guys can answer me back in case I'm wrong :-)

At least to me it feels like that. It feels right. I wouldn't ever be able to give 150% on steemit if this wasn't exactly what I wanted.

After more than one year on steemit, creating a blog post still excites me in a special way.

Most of the time the ideas for my stories come to my mind in situations that have nothing to do with this platform. That happens because my inner antennas are always on alert. Whenever something calls my attention in an exceptional way, it's a potential idea for my blog.

Everything I publish on steemit is related with myself in a certain way. Every story includes a little piece of me.

Maybe that makes my stories so credible - or as Friedrich Nietzsche said once:

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

That skateboard was paid with the first money I earned on steemit

That's why 'we can't fake passion' as Barbara Corcoran mentioned in the beginning of this article.

You would uncover me :-)

The only risk I assume is the eventual loss of inspiration. What if one day I don't know what to write about?

Yet, chances are little.

During the past decades my life has been even more adventurous than I wanted it to be. Probably it's part of my personality that I unintentionally seek the challenge, the hard, the tough and the sometimes painful. Those who fly high may fall deep. But even if I wanted to change something about it, I couldn't.

It's part of my DNA, as well as writing is.

Here's my promise to you and (especially to myself): I'll be passionately keeping my life as interesting and adventurous as any future story might require it to be.

Remember: the most important reader of your stories is you.

Whenever you find pleasure in reading your own stuff, there will be surely some more people that might enjoy it in the very same way.

You should be your most critical observer and judge - and not that little number below your writing called payout :-)

Thanks for reading, for your time and your loyalty, steemians!
You are incredible!
Marly -

Thanks for your valuable time!
This blog was launched at the end of July 2016
aiming to provide stories for open-minded
people who enjoy living on the edge of their lives,
stepping out of comfort zones, going on adventure,
doing extreme sports and embracing the new.
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Original content. Quote found on geckoandfly.com.