What is More Important, a Million Dollars or a Million Friends?

I have been on Steemit for just a couple of days and had a total breakthrough on the last couple of hours.

When my friend Hive account@joblessjake told me about this platform I thought “great, here is a way to make easy money” and spent the next two days glued to my computer trying to crack the code to make quick money on Steemit. In the meantime I went through all sorts of emotions: disappointment to see my posts get no votes, excitement when I got my first $2 post and disappointment again when I saw that I was still posting with no traction.

In the meantime I have also seen tons of posts and comments get all sorts of $$$$ and that has made me jealous, angry, sad and so on. So of course, I kept pushing and pushing to climb up the Steemit ladder. I guess this is a bit similar to the famous rat race.

Eventually I gave up, I figured that I am just not lucky enough, or maybe my personality sucks, or that I have nothing interesting to share, or no charisma… It was quite depressing…

But then I said “fuck it! I am just going to be me” and posted my first introduction I thought it was perfect and was excepting to see lots of upvotes and $$$ from it, but it only made $4, again, I was disappointed… UNTIL….

Until I saw some of the comments I got on that post, at least half a dozen people appreciating my honesty, my vulnerability, my personality and then I realized….

I rather make a million friends than a million dollars. I rather share my true thoughts and talk about what really matters to me, even if it gets 1/1000 of the money that some random meme post gets. I want to be me and I want people to know me and see me, I want my “followers” to be people that really appreciate who I am. If the money comes, great, but in the meantime I want to surround myself with loving people, if that means more money, great, but I will take friends over money anyway.

LOVE TO YOU ALL

@BrunoTreves