My journey to splinterlands is worth your time and a fun story to share with many emotions attached. Enjoy reading it!
It all started with pokemon physical cards, I loved to play with them but one day I realized I had some people (needy) close to me who lacks joy in their life (especially someone that I can recall because he had no father and only single parent her mother). Time passed but in my heart, I always wanted to do something for others to spread happiness because with sharing my happiness will be multiplied. On Christmas Day, I thought a lot to myself about Santa and started thinking to myself how can I become Santa for others to share happiness, I knew by then Santa doesn't exist thus I wanted to be Santa for others. So, on Christmas day I promised myself I will give away all my toys to needy people in close relatives without hurting their moral values.
As promised I delivered all my toys with some additional toys bought from the market to the ones deserving. I still remembered my collection of pokemon cards as they had a special place in my heart.
This was the last time I had interaction with any cards games then in my life there was an entry of Andrei Jake (a tuber whose videos I love to watch). He was a fan of pokemon cards which give me nostalgic feelings. I started to look for cards again on the internet. One day I was surfing on youtube and there was an ad for the Cue Cards game (not sponsored just my experience). It was fun to play but they lack a lot of things Splinterlands is good at. I complained how their game doesn't have a selling feature and their focus is only about forcing people to learn and missing earning opportunities for gamers. They don't listen to my ideas and discourage earning from card games. It was my end with Cue cards.
I knew whatever Idea is in my mind is already in existence somewhere on the web thus I started looking for a game that is exactly like my imagination. As a Binance Trader, I knew that in the Blockchain space some games are like my imagination of play to earn models. I knew steemmonsters and crypto kitties since they launched but never do anything about it. But after Cue card and pokemon cards love revived my love for card games by that tuber I really wanna give a try to blockchain NFT card collection games.
I searched on youtube and the game of the bitcoins channel showed me the gameplay of splinterlands. I like the gameplay but to me, 10$ is too much since the dollar cost in my country is 169 per unit. To fulfill my dreams and splinterlands beauty execution of things I liked in a card game forced me to buy a spellbook.
When I started playing, as a gamer I knew I must join all communities of that game to learn and grow fast. The fastest way to grow was getting cards and power from top players. I reached to some tubers (only those I liked their content and can't stop watching) and there was no response on Reddit, YouTube, and other social platforms. In my heart, I knew a game of this nature has players on the top level that are happy to help newcomers.
I got excited when I saw Clove71 (a splinterlands tuber) on discord online as I was also on discord. I shared with her how much I liked her content on youtube (at that time I was only excited and don't care about the giveaway from top players). I made her laugh (happy) somehow and in return she made my day by sending 5 SPS to 
"In this survival of fittest game, there are always people that will give a hand helping to you and welcome you (newcomers)".
Till this point, if you are reading I wanna thank you for reading my story! my gamer tag is
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