Yes, that's exactly one of the reasons I decided to start writing this blog! People have forgotten that these online friendships that we have, while yes, they are a form of friendship, they are not the same thing as the real life friendships that we have with our real life, in person friends. This isn't to say, of course, that our internet friends can't ever become our real friends. In fact, my best friend now is someone who I met in a Facebook group.
The problem arises when we think that our online friendships are enough. We lose our connection to the real world and real, physical people. We begin to lose our sense of being able to communicate and interact with real people in the real world because we no longer know anything about how to be REAL with people.
If you would like to keep up with my Friendship In a New Age posts, you just have to keep me in your Following, and my posts should show up in your feed whenever you check them. Or you could just make it a point to check my account from time to time to see my posts, but that's a bit more dedication than I'd ever expect from anyone :P
As for why it can't be resteemed, it's because the post is older than 7 days already, and from my understanding, once a post crosses the 7th day, it becomes completely cemented in the blockchain and can no longer be edited or resteemed. Thank you so much for trying/wanting to, though! It really means a lot to me, you have no idea!
I started formulating these ideas last year, but no one really appreciated them and I didn't really have an audience for them, so I kinda lost motivation to write more on the subject. But now that I'm here on Steemit and people have actually been appreciating my posts and commenting on them to start discussions, I have renewed my passion for writing about it and plan to keep on writing more posts frequently.
Seriously, thank you SO MUCH! I really and truly appreciate the comments you're leaving.
regarding: If you would like to keep up with my Friendship In a New Age posts, you just have to keep me in your Following - for as long as steemit works you will be one of the people i will follow and i will check your account to see your new posts on friendship.
The idea that i just have realized is this: i made a mistake that i will fix, i started to follow some people that do not necessary write something super interesting to me, and that tends to backfire as i will occasionally miss posts from people that i do want to read posts from like you.
Will fix that soon :)
About resteem, i did not give up i found another post and after i read it i resteem it. I do not quit so easy :)
And one more thing: look i read also your introductory post and loved the humanity you have put in there but i could not helped but noticed you did not mentioned anything about the Friendship In a New Age, or did i miss it?
What i wanted to say is this: EDM is awesome but friendship is orders of magnitude more awesome.
I think actually the second one is more relevant to my point about finding the strenght to continue when things are toughBelieve in yourself, do not quit writing, we need people like you. And i think this video i did might help you a bit..
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Thank you again for your continued support! I'm so glad that Steemit connects people like you and I to each other. I am looking forward to building a real friendship with you! I, too, have had that same problem, and I am working on fixing it as well. I made that same mistake when I first started out, I was under the mentality/impression that if people follow me or say they will follow me, that I owe them a follow back. So I followed so many people back without even considering whether or not I would actually appreciate their topics, etc.
People in the Minnow Support Project has since taught me that not only is it OK to not follow people back whose posts you aren't genuinely interested in, it's pretty much the standard practice, especially for people who have grown on this platform and have several hundreds of followers.
I'm starting to learn that I don't have to feel bad about not following someone back, because they will understand. The most I can do in that situation is just express my sincere and deepest gratitude that they deemed my content worthy of being followed.
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Wow, that video was so on point! I really loved the message you shared. That is definitely a mindset that I try to cultivate within myself as well. It can be hard sometimes to stay on course when the little doubts come into play, and you're absolutely right, trust is a key factor in all of it. We need to trust that if we just keep on putting one foot in front of the other and keep on working towards our goal, victory will be waiting on the other side of the mountain of doubt.
Also, I really loved the way you talked about it. I could tell that you are passionate about that subject because of how you gesticulate as you express those ideas. My best friend actually broadened my horizons on the whole notion of people who gesticulate as they talk.
He said he believes that when people do that, it invites others to really listen and pay attention to what they say, because the very act of involving your whole body in the process of expressing your ideas shows just how truly passionate you are about what you're talking about. It engenders a sense of trust with the people you are speaking to, because they will think to themselves, "wow, this guy is really into what he's talking about, maybe I should pay attention!"
Thank you for sharing that video with me!
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