The world in which we live equally distributes talent. But it doesn't equally distribute opportunity. It's up to each of us to distribute equally.
You've heard the stories: girl growing up in the ghetto is a violin prodigy, but she cannot afford lessons. She is self taught, with natural but raw talent. Unfortunately, she must drop out of school to work just to survive, and the violin is pawned for food money. Or the foster child who is taken under the wing of a professor who heard about her potential, and is given enough opportunities to where he flies through University and grows up to cure a dangerous disease.
So much beautiful natural talent is lost because of a mere lack of opportunity. The wealthy have all the opportunity they could want, but the not so wealthy must juggle and balance.
Steemit can make the playing field more equal. The platform enables each of us to determine content quality and worth, and reward it with no loss of our own. We can help a person in need with medical emergencies or a sudden expense, we can help a struggling artist get her work out there for the world to see and sponsors to curate, or we can help a starving writer who has mega talent but no audience be seen and in turn eat more than cereal tonight. We, the wonderful people of Steemit, can make lives better! We can help each other be self sufficient. We can recognize and reward hard work and natural talent so it is not lost to the gaping maw of lost opportunity.
And we can do all this with a simple upvote and resteem!
Isn't this power amazing!
But with great power comes great responsibility.
You determine who rises on Steemit. Each upvote you cast, even if your vote is only worth one penny, furthers someone's dreams. Every resteem gets their hard work in front of a larger audience.
Each connection you make enriches someone's life.
You are powerful outside of Steemit as well.
You are a representative of Steemit, everywhere you go, everything you do. You are a representative of your family. Of your community. Of your country.
Every little thing you do either puts a positive or negative light on a number of things you belong to and are involved with. You know how when a child acts a fool people blame the parents? Of if a number of people who do well in life come from a certain school, the public looks at that school with positivity and respect.
As a representative of the cryptocurrency community, your actions shed good or bad light on the cryptosphere.
All of your actions determine whether cryptos are seen as solid, or something shady to be wary of.
You create your reality, with every move you make. You determine your surroundings.
A ball in motion stays in motion. When you give even a seemingly small opportunity to someone, you are starting an upward mobility of success.
Help a neighborhood child with their homework- explain the concept so they can wrap their head around it and progress on their own.
Share a talent of yours with someone less fortunate. It was gifted to you- share the wealth.
Help an elderly neighbor by picking up their groceries or fixing that sagging gutter.
Tip the young girl behind the counter. She may be struggling with her young family or tuition.
Be patient with new Steemmates. You were once new and overwhelmed, too ;)
Smile at everyone you meet.
Be a respectable and strong ambassador for your family, school, home community and your cryptocommunity.