About the Art: This illustration was done during summer time. It was intended to be for a summer vacations post. I kept procrastinating, never got to write the post and the fall came in followed with winter. Today however, I have a relevant topic. Now I know, that I made this to illustrate me on early retirement that Steem will be sending me in couple years. Wishful thinking? Maybe. But I like the thought :)
"Where is the family and friend?" - you may wonder. After all its not fun to be on vacation for the rest of the life without family and friends. They are in the Steem cruise ship that 
Topic of the day is SBDs! I am not going to talk about it much. Just wanted to mention how yesterday and today everybody in Steem world(including myself) obsessively talking about SBDs prices mooning. Wherever you go steemit.chat, discord, Steemit.com, you see mixed feelings. Some are opening champaign bottles and exchanging toasts, some are showing intellectual concerns about the future of SBDs and Steem in general. For a brief moment or maybe longer bitcoin topic had to get off the stage and let SBD shine.
This experience, reaffirmed my thoughts and believes that Steem is a smart investment, and it will be big one day. If SBD went from $1 to $12 in few days, couple years for Steem to get to $100 is plenty of time :) You may call me delusional. But let me be. Maybe it is a dream. But it is a dream I like and I want
To be a bit more serious though, there are so many reasons why I believe Steem will be a big success. I know there are various issues here and there, but I also know there are many brilliant people from all walks of life globally in this community. Just the fact the issues are talked about and individual members, and sub-communities are working towards solutions and reason enough to convince me Steem platform will be strong. Moreover, the dedication I have seem from many fine people such as folks in Writers' Block, in members in various discord channels like MSP, MAP, Adsactly, etc, curation guilds like OCD, SteemStem, my great fellows at Curie is absolutely amazing. Of course there are many many more groups, sub-communities who are doing great things to make this platform a great place. This kind of dedication gives me no doubt that Steem is here to stay, and it is only matter of time for it grow and become another blockchain success story.
Over last few months I have met many great people, and learning from each and every one of them a big deal. One of the things I got a recent interest in is programming, and thank to this community I think am in a right track in gaining programming skills. One of my good friends 
Bottomline, the commitment and dedication I see from member of this community is the greatest asset of this platform. That is why I believe in Steem retirement :) I am super excited to be in onboard of
This post is for entertainment only. Please don't take this as a financial and/or investment advice.
If you like clicking arrow shaped buttons facing upwards, feel free to do so down below. If you like messing with flag shaped buttons, I don't mind that either. Just do it after SBD drops in price :) lol