Thinking about this year 2017, I realize its been a year of extremes for me. That's what I would describe as a perfect rollercoaster ride of desperate depair and unexpected wins.
This year I lost everything I ever made in Ponzi. This same year I found Steemit. This same year I completed the service of my country in a harsh environment where I learned alot of life lessons. You know what they say, "its the tough times that make tough people succeed". I think I'm ready to leap into 2018 already. Meanwhile let me reminisce a little on the past. How did 2017 begin for me?
It started on a bad note I must say. By December 2016, the ponzi scheme that I had stupidly put my savings into had crashed with a funny (but unrealistic) promise that it will restart in January. I remember my X-mas because there was nothing much to remember. I spent a huge chunk of my time brooding in a bad mood. Infact, I didn't even know there was any such thing like Christmas happening around me because of the state of my mind. Everything was on low key for me and family members because they lost too.
January was very slow. Infact snails were faster than the first quarter of the year.
The only other thing that kept me going was the new National Assignment I had to do. You see in my country there was this ritual we had where you go to serve ("for free") in different capacities for a year. After that, you are given a certificate which shows that you have done it.
Well that was one of my achievements because I used that opportunity to learn alot I would't ordinarily have been exposed to. I learnt that many people suck. Literally. There are only a few good people and even those still suck sometimes (including me). I learnt that the only person I could trust was God and myself. I learnt that there is strenght in adversity and wisdom in mistakes.
I became a stronger man. A deeper man. Albeit I was a little bit too shallow before then. I rose from the ashes of betrayals which I may not make more explicit here. But like they say "never trust a hungry lion with your Christmas goat". Lolx. I learned to laugh even when the situation says otherwise.
I started a DotCom business with a person I regarded as a friend as at that time.
It ended up being a bad omen for all parties involved coz the guy was a psycho let loose from a psychiatric hospital by some freak. Lolx. Permit my raw imageries but that's the impression I was left with. A "friendship" was gone so was a business and so was my money...but not the memories. Nah! Those stayed back with me. Infact they mocked me for a few more weeks before I finally got over it.
Somehow, someway, I got in contact with another old pally who told me how wonderfully well he was doing trading crypto.
By now it was already way past mid-year and I still had nothing to show for it. It seemed all my new year's resolves for that year were wrong. Hmmm! So back to the crypto guy.
I was already sensitized to Bitcoin so it was easy for me to key in and continue the knowledge upload into my brain. I found out about Bittrex from him. I learnt how to use the site for trades etc. But the real technique behind it was still a hit and miss. You see I had gotten some profit from my first trade so I thought that it must continue that way. I enthusiastically took loss after loss until I had to tell myself the truth- I sucked at cryptotrading. It was time to either level up or die trying.
I found pump and dump groups that claimed to give you price "signals" of what cryptos to trade on a certain day. So dumb. I took more hits to my now lean wallet and what I had were just negative experiences that I didn't yet know how to profit from. I continued the search for information like a hungry 
HURRAY! I FOUND STEEMIT!!
I don't want to rehash every part of the story I have already told here: GRATEFULVIBES - I FEEL LUCKY BEING ON THIS BLOCKCHAIN HERE & NOW (YOU SHOULD TOO).
I'm still thankful because every step along the way lead me here to Steemit. It was as if the universe as trying to set my compass in the right direction all along but I was resisting progress. You know something about life is that it always has a way of finding us and repointing us in the right direction. Just like the big fish found Jonah in the biblical story and took him to Niniveh; we all must be located by our destinies.
FINALLY, COME EAT WITH ME!...
As this year draws to a close (today's mid-way through the last month), I feel happy for everything I have gone through because without them I may not have a story to tell on this blockchain. They say "Everyone has a story"...mine was not just a story...but a ride...*A ROLLERCOASTER RIDE!*
FOR A DETAILED REASON TO WRITE SUCH REVIEW OF YOUR YEAR, Here's The Link To Post By @ANOMADSOUL
Cheers Guys!
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