When you get money to share some old memories.....well well.....I suppose we should....
The contest is all about answering a simple yet difficult question posed by
What Does Steemit Mean To You, and how Crypto Currencies have changed your life."
Most of the guys over here would answer that they were introduced to steem during their research on crypto things....bla bla....but ......it's not true in my case....
Steem introduction to me was all of a sudden.I have got a godfather cousin at home who is a REAL TECHIE AND KEEPS ON SIEVING THESE THINGS SO THAT HE CAN CLASSIFY THINGS ....and when he feels that I m good enough to take some of them he feeds me a lil bit of those things and within some time I m all ready to take the place.....
It was not that much sudden ...he used to teache some tit bits of crypto currency ...bitcoin...and all that and after some time I started to read articles about these things .
During my initial days I didn't understand a shit of these things....BLOCKCHAIN.... DECENTRALISED MECHANISM ...BLA BLA....BUT I WOULD REFER THESE THINGS TO godfather and he used to teach me these things in a the easiest possible way.I used to be on social media handles a lot...wasting my time as such but then came the Day what I refer to as THE GREAT FRIDAY
It was a Friday I suppose he was surfing net as usual ..and suddenly he started talking about the ways of earning money online and started off with something called UPWORK...FIVERR....FREELANCING AND WHAT NOT .....and after some time he introduced steem to me.
He taught me the whole thing....a platform where your creativity pays off.
At first I thought it would be easy ....just post anything and you will get a bag full of money....but with the passage of time I understood the bitter truth. .....
All along the way he used to motivate me one way or the other.....and did his best to keep me moving ....by that time he was already a full time steemian.....but I would often find ways to get off these things and becuse of not getting enough reward I almost went off the steem for almost 3 months.....
Thosee three months I invested my time in FB....watsapp.... Instagram.....and what not....
But after three months something happened to me SUDDENLY I WOULD SAY.......I SUDDENLY QUIT MY ALL THESE THINGS TO BECOME A FULL STEEMIAN......IT IS TGE THING THAT MADE ME EMOTIONALLY STRONG BECAUSE UTS EASY TO KEEP GOING WHEN YOU ARE MAKING NICE BUCKS OUT OF STEEM BUT ITS LIKE HELL WHEN YOU DONT MAKE ANY AND THATS THE REAL TEST....MY ACCOUNT HAS STARTED TO TAKE OFF BECAUSE I M NOT GONNA GIVE UP....EVEN IF I DONT EARN ANYTHING J M GONNA BE A STEEMIAN....
these were all economic things ......
Coming to what steem means to me....
First of all I m a writer .....and that naturally means that i m MAD.....ALL ARTISTS ARE. THIS IS TGE PLATFORM WHERE EVERYONE LISTENS TO MY MADNESS WITH UTMOST ATTENTION......SONETIMES I GET PRAISES AND SOMETIMES I GET LESSONS BUT OVERALL I M GROWING BOTH EMOTIONALLY....SOCIALLY AND AFTER SOME TIME I MIGHT GROW ECINOMICALLY.....
EVERYONE TRIES TO BE CREATIVE OVER HERE.....NEAT AND POLISHED ARTICLES AND COLOURFUL PHOTOGRAOHY....POETRY .....WRITING .....CRYPTO.....EVERYTHING.....EVERYONE OVER HERE IS POURING SWEAT IN EVERY DOLLAR THEY EARN.....BUT WHAT MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL IS THAT YOU ARE GETTING SUPPORT OF PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE MET......
SOMW GIYS OVER HERE TAUGHT ME MANY THINGS AND THEY TREAT YOU LIKE ANYTHING ...I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION SOME NAMES APART FROM MY COUSINS. . 
Crypto has changed my life and I suppose for better because it's the thing that made me emotionally string and I think even that is enough.....Nothing can keep me off the steem ...such is the connection developed with this non living thing yet so living ....Man...you meet new people everyday ...and everyone here wants to be best .....some become so...but most of the guys quit ......that's what competition is all about .....deadwood leaves......and the real timber survives.....currently I m thinking of investing some coins in these CRYPTO THINGS AND am doing lot of research ...I m almost steeming for 12_14 hrs these days....well might sound crazy...but it's true. ..and I m gonna continue this thing till I make myself s name on steem....
Thank you 
This is my entry ...thank you.