Celebrating #100 Weekend Engagement
Turning 100 is nothing to scoff at. TheWeekend Community and Weekend Engagement concept is looking freaking sexy for it's age don't you think? It's grown and changed over time and has brought many different people together. It's become quite a melting pot.
My Hive journey and stumbling on The Weekend
I only started posting five months after I opened my account and even then it was sporadic as I had absolutely no clue of how Hive worked or the long term potential it has. Looking back now, the learning curve was quite steep although I wish I had dedicated more time to learning faster and applying it sooner.
The Weekend Community was one of the first communities that I found stumbled across and I'm glad I did. It was somewhere around week 60 at that stage. I made a few comments about almost knocking myself out with a vacuum cleaner pipe after clearing a blockage and canned myself at the banter that ensued. It became one of the first places I would check in.
I'll admit I made a lot of mistakes at the beginning of the journey simply because I was ignorant. Hive has changed my life for the better in a number of ways. Sure some days I don't know what to post but there's never a shortage of blog prompts if you go back a few weeks in this community!
What would I have done differently?
- I would have opened my account four years earlier
- Research, research, research!
- I would have rather invested capital into my Hive account instead of buying Bitcoin when I originally did. I know it sounds ridiculous, but if I had bought Hive and powered it up, there would have been less opportunity to panic sell it as it would have been powered up.
- Powering up would have started from day 8 of my account, not after months.
Would I start from scratch?
Absolutely not. There are posts in my account that have a lot of meaning and memories in and behind them, almost a mirror of life events, set-backs, challenges, emotions, growth, achievements and victories. I would like to believe that my account shows a good portion of who I am - my personality, what I value and hold dear and sometimes even my whimsical side. I don't think that anyone's account is an absolute reflection of them as a person, but it's a good place to start when we are wanting to engage with like-minded people.
Congrats Galen and all of the Weekenders who got involved up until now. Cheers to many more!
