Mums are great! They love us unconditionally. They nurture us, protect us and support us from the day we are born. They encourage us to go on when we lose faith in ourselves. I know Dads do all of the above as well and I do not want to ignore all the brilliant Dads out there (including my husband and friends who are truly wonderful fathers) so any reference to Moms in this post also includes Dads.
So why do you need your mum and dad here on Steemit? Let me explain. I am relatively new here on Steemit and I am not yet a full time Steemian. Although a big part of my life revolves around writing, my documents are almost always confidential and they do not make for very exciting read.
Yes, I am a lawyer.
Some background...
I joined Steemit towards the end of September last year as part of a little personal experiment. I know three months on Steemit makes me seem like a reasonable size dinosaur but I am not there yet. In fact, I am so small that I don’t even qualify as a minnow yet. That’s right, I am a redfish which is as small as you can be on Steemit.
So getting back to my experiment, I started my Steemit account as an experiment to see if one could actually make money on Steemit without investing any money. Now the reason I was particularly interested in this experiment was because my past experience taught me one thing and that is:
“money attracts money”.
In other words, if you don’t have any money to start with, it’s going to be a rough ride and it will be a lot more challenging to attract new money. Whereas if you are loaded, new money will come knocking on your door.
Now obviously there are loads of rags to riches stories around. I hear no end of them. I sometimes feel like everyone is a billionaire except me. However, if you think about it, you will see there is some truth in what I am saying. It seems the more money you have, the less people want you to pay for things.
Just think about it, do you think Justin Bieber paid for that Jacket?
I can’t be certain whether Justin actually paid for it or not, but I have my reservations! It seems to me the richer you are the less people want you to pay for things (the more Steem Power you have the more people vote for you). Whereas if you are poor, there is a tax for you to even live on this earth and then some more when you die (trust me! I know about taxes, I used to work for the biggest accounting firm in the world).
Getting back to the experiment, could you make money to pay your bills with Steemit without investing in SP? I suppose it sort of depends on the bills and where you live. I live in Europe, so the cost of living is not as low as some parts of the world but there are some expenses like healthcare etc that are covered by National Insurance so maybe it’s not as high as U.S. or some other countries. I use the local cryptocurrency exchange Kraken when I want to treat myself to some crypto. I hodl a collection of different cryptocurrencies and steem just happens to be one that I couldn’t buy there. So I knew I couldn’t cheat my way here. So I started the experiment with some delegated SP (courtesy of Steemit) and started this adventure.
The first time I logged into Steemit and the first post I saw was a 75 SBD giveaway and I thought to myself, oh wow, this is going to be soooo easy. At the time I didn’t have a clue what SBD was but I knew whatever it was I wanted some. So I entered the competition. I resteemed that post (as per the competition guideline) and nada! Why didn’t he pick me for that SBD? I don’t like him anymore :D
That little exposure taught me, it ain’t as easy as some people make it sound. Just as I thought! So I decided to persevere, I experimented by posting my first post to see what happens and there I found some hope. I found Hive account@dwarrilow2002 - my very first Steemit friend :)
Hive account@dwarrilow2002 left the first human comment encouraging me to post some more content. I didn’t know what to say, I was like a happy puppy. So I upvoted his comment with my virtually non-existent SP.
I had not yet gathered the courage to actually write my own content, so I did the next best thing:
I started commenting on their posts and also other steemians who were writing interesting content and trying to help redfish survive in this ever expanding Steemy ocean. All this time my dear friend Hive account@dwarrilow2002 did not give up on me and he kept encouraging me to post some of my own stuff on Steemit.
So finally on Christmas day I posted my first real-ish post and my new friends supported me. Ok, I didn’t make a fortune out of that post (a few cents to be accurate) but for some reason that didn’t matter. It was the fact that I found friends (people I have never met in real life) who were voting for my post knowing full well that there is nothing in it for them! This was truly wonderful feeling! I felt someone cared :) This was also disproving what I thought to be true: It showed me that some people would help you even if you don’t have any money. So maybe you don’t need money to attract money?
I have posted a couple more posts since Christmas and commented like a maniac (no not one of those “nice post” comments) and although I have not made anywhere near enough money to pay the bills, the experiment is not over yet and I know my friends will support me whenever they can.
This brings me to the title of this post. Why do I think you need to bring your mom to Steemit? Well, if you come to Steemit without any money (SP) and you fail to make any friends, you truly do need your mum to upvote all your awesome posts just to get through the day. You need all the love and support in your initial stages (same as a human baby) of your friends and family to find the spirit to carry on this journey.
Although I have not persuaded my mum to join Steemit yet, I have found a few friends (mentioned in this post) and some family (to be introduced in future posts) who I feel are encouraging me to persevere.
I am truly grateful for all the wonderful people around the world that I have met in my last few months and I wish all the SP and SBD in the world to these wonderful folks. I hope to see them grow on Steemit like Bitcoin grew in 2017 or may be Ripple :D
If you happen to somehow stumble upon this post and decide to read all the way through, please upvote and leave a comment below for this redfish. I will definitely come and find you :)
Also, if your mum is not on Steemit and you are looking for some new friends, I would highly recommend that you visit each and every one of the incredible Steemians mentioned in this post and engage with them. They will help you, guide you and most importantly encourage you to grow on Steemit.
- my very first Steemit friend :) 
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who are truly very special and creative people and most recent addition to my friend list 
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