Play, create and win!

I'm really excited about this contest.

Clay modelling a turtle!

Two of my toddler favourite things rolled into one.

Turtles and play dough.

We had fun!

His was a whole lot more creative than mine, you can check it out here.

But it got us playing together.

Which I am so grateful for. Sometimes I need to be motivated to do fun stuff and turn the TV off.

There are a number of creative contests rolling at the moment.

Steemit is a potentially engaging place.
Seeing people make the effort to interact, get involved and support each other in mutually beneficial fun projects makes for a fun platform.

Lately a serge in irrelevant bot comments and spam has depersonalised this space.

There is nothing more disheartening after putting your energy into a post that is important to you, seeing a comment pop up, getting that WOW SOMEONE WROTE SOMETHING feeling, only to discover it holds no relevance to your subject matter.

I learnt that I am not alone with this feeling when the host of this contest Hive account@josejirafa replied to my comment on his swimming post.

It's been a while since I read a comment that really connected to me, not for the sake of commenting but for to really reach out to a person. I am please to meet you...I really appreciate your comment...

It was a post about his competitive swimming, which I used to do myself.

I am getting tired of the useless comments that insult people's hard work and passion, but I don't want to engage these people / bots at all. I don't want to engage in flagging either. I want to maintain my positive space.

Something else I noticed about Hive account@josejirafa was that within his contest promotion he divulged with honesty that

It felt really degrading to host my own contest yet not be able to reward those whom I really think deserves it.

When I see a cool contest I don't notice the status of the person or check their Wallet, I just get excited for the opportunity to get involved.

But I have been there. He also wrote.

After posting, I told people I know to... just to shield me from the embarrassment.

I haven't shared this before, but when I was a noobie and took over Hive account@papa-peppers tattoo contest I got half way through the week and had no entries.

I rang my sister, made her register a user name and made her do a write up of one of her tattoos.
😂😂😂

I was embarrassed.

I want to see people who are motivated and engaging in a positive way do well.

This contest has potential.

Anyone with childhood modelling clay / play dough memories know how much fun it is to squish and mould a creation.

Reading a proposal for something so awesome filled with doubt and self judgement is uncool.

So let's make this week a success.

For next week I have already forwarded 5SBD for the prize pool. I am withdrawing my chance at a prize due to my obvious conflict of interest as sponsor.