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Today is the day when I joyfully celebrate ***One Year*** on this wonderful, interesting and productive platform: **Steemit.** It has been a year to measure and evaluate my social skills, writing skills and abilities, level of creativity, initiative and imagination, and ultimately to test my productivity potential in these networks built on Blockchain technology. ## My beginnings. Today I want to confess to you that I tried very hard in my first publication. Since no one was teaching me, but learning on my own, I was unaware that the first publication had to be the presentation of my person. Instead I was deeply inspired to write an article on philosophy that I have always liked. Of course, the result was logical. Nobody voted for me, and I didn't know I could vote for myself either. So my first publications did not get me to charge anything at all because those who voted for me were as new as me who did not contribute anything to the final reward. Had I been one of the pessimistic people that same week I would have been discouraged. But, little by little I was encouraged to see what content I could create to publish. ![steemit01.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNVzam1FKtrnGp31JuSJ6iewmtmRUZF1LcGZpxfdNd32b/steemit01.png) And nothing changed over the next few weeks. And I was beginning to wonder, like everything new, what I was doing wrong that nobody was voting for me. And of course, those who published in Spanish said you have to label @cervantes. I had no idea who the man was, and I started to do it, but the magic didn't happen either. ![steemit03.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQT97ybNwxDgbbV79hP2CtemdXBptoFhDTkLnYr1piQvy/steemit03.png) And so I continued without getting discouraged. Until one day, the fearsome dTube author, @heimindanger, appeared and I found the application so interesting that I asked for his permission to translate it into Spanish, which he agreed to. When I finished translating and publishing, 15 minutes later the only real whale who voted for me arrived, a certain @thejohalfiles who gave me a one-time award of more than $100. ![steemit02.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRWuQd2K3RCZhQ4W9sJ4ep3VPWx7WpFAvJvBDGYsCLwqd/steemit02.png) From that moment on, I thought I was going to make a lot of money translating the content in English into Spanish and that I would always have the support of my friend @thejohalfiles. Turns out Steemit doesn't work that way. Then I understood that this is a social network, and I had to make many good friends with very good influence to have good acceptance and a high level in Steemit. ## Acknowledgements I would like to take advantage of this birthday to thank all the people who have directly helped me in my growth at Steemit. First to the first group of Latinos who welcomed me into their group: ALLSTEEM. Many are not in the group now. But those of you who are still here, I want to thank you: @rahesi, @sulemna, @yenipaola, @kaizag, @luiscasamuray, @area-55, @worldofcrypton, @marpa, @crypto-success, @vickaboleyn, @psicomar, @franj24, @mariacaffrey, @kiriatjrb, @marinesp, @rogeviolinista. And how could I not thank the inspiring Venezuelan guide who led the first MeetUp I attended and met many Steemit users. The great Saturn Mangieri, @theghost1980. There's a very special person. I haven't had the privilege of meeting her personally. But I know she's a wonderful person. He likes to travel, and he has to travel because he is a pilot of one of the aircraft I like: the helicopter. She is @steem-samiam. Ever since she met me at Steemit, she has not stopped voting for my publications. She has been a key person in my growth. Thank you very much, friend. The other group of people who have helped me in my growth are those in the terrible @shadowbot. Thank you also for your unconditional support. ## Promo-Mentors In a special way I want to thank the esteemed and respected sensei, master of the future @futurethinker, who also welcomed me and helped me in my growth, giving me important tasks to perform. Thank you very much. I hope to be recovered from my vision problem to be able to join again in this wonderful team called Promo-Mentors. Who I haven't been able to name, but you know you've supported me, I apologize. But the race goes on, the growth can't stop. We must move forward in this new year at Steemit.