Today is a HUGE milestone to finally reach 20,000SP. It looks like I'm also going to break 400 followers before the end of the year too!
I've spent much of this year working OT to invest my own money into this platform. It's almost strange to try and tell someone about how steemit works because people look at it as a waste of money, but they couldn't be more wrong.
Granted there are thousands who pass by here and have absolutely zero effect on my life. This is the case in real life as well. But the few you who have stopped to read and comment, and those who stop to help have really showed me that there is a portion of this community that really wants to extended a friendly gesture to each other.
Earlier in the year, I wrote about how empty the community here is and how far it is from hobbyist forum. That view is slowly changing and it is less about the people, and about the noise that exists here. That noise will clean up over time and I'm confident that we will all eventually find our place here so as long as we stay around and stay genuine.
One of my favorite things about being part of the steemit community is how the interaction here pushed me to change how I look at the platform and myself.
The key takeaway for me, irrespective of the money aspect of steem is about having an online persona. You REALLY need to be able to judge yourself critical and reflect on who you are as a person. Your content oozes your personality, and if you vlog, then you really see what you do and do not like about yourself.
Vlogging and Blogging really helps form your identity. Of course you can be fake in front of the camera, but that really makes it difficult because you feel a bit disgusted with yourself.
So just to throw some names out there off the top of my head in regards to people who regularly support my stuff and/or interact with me, or has somehow made me rethink about the platform.
There are many more, but I have the worst memory with names!
Reader Question: Tell me about 1 thing you think steemit has done to benefit your life and how it happened!
Photo of the day, I'm on top of some mountain in Washington. No idea where but I had to work out there and decided to flyout a few days earlier and take some vacation time to spend in the woods solo and reconnect with nature!
