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One of the most embarrassing moments in Steemit was at the beginning...
Initially I started at Steemit with the illusion of earning dollars. Exchange them in my country meant a lot of money! Earn extra money in order to survive the endless crisis in which we, venezuelans, live.
At first, I was excited and at the same time scared (Im pretty shy) I started writing my posts. Every day I saw the list of posts on my blog, waiting for the upvotes. The profit!
The dream of getting rich overnight. But as they say in my country, the one who lives of illusions dies of disappointments.
I woke up from my bubble and over time, It popped. I became disillusioned, discouraged
I tried to write about everything, to see which was the most striking trend. What started as a hobby, became an obsession.
I was disappointed by the fact that I wrote posts with professional content and earned very little, unlike others that were simply photos of girls or comments that did not exceed 100 words.
Being looking at the screen to see if someone voted for my posts, became more than a habit, an addiction.
The worst of all was that I felt envy and jealousy for those who earned a lot more with their posts than me.
Steemit had awakened the worst in me. I had never felt that kind of feeling.
That's how I felt at the beginning. I really felt sorry for my feelings. I stopped writing post for a while. It was very embarrassing for me.
But thanks to the support of many steemians friends I kept writing post eventually. But this time, for the purpose of having fun, learning and sharing.
Was a lesson to learn...
Thanks for reading!
Lamento que hayas tomado de esa manera, algo que nos sucede a todos los que empezamos en este maravilloso mundo, ahora te felicito, por haber retomado el camino correcto, que consiste en disfrutar y aprender, lo demás viene por añadidura, saludos
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Gracias amigo @sir-lionel!
Sí, gracias al apoyo de amigos en Steemit no perdí las ganas de seguir escribiendo. Y te cuento que Steemit me abrió el camino al mundo de la imaginación donde viven los escritores, transportándome a lugares maravillosos: desde el desierto del Sahara hasta una estación espacial del futuro llamada Asgardia!
Saludos!
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A heart-felt post and I appreciate the honesty. I didn't realize you were Venezuelan either, so I understand your initial motivation with life being so much harder at the moment. I hope you do hit your stride, get the following you want and feel rewarded by what you contributed.
I do often struggle with the 'commercials' of steemit. It's not something I really want to get too invested in, other than the number means that I can have more influence to vote. What depresses me more than anything is that my vote has ZERO value. So that makes me feel like I don't have a voice. -sigh- So if there's to be envy, it's voting envy from my corner. I came to this platform thinking all the time I spent commenting on FB posts might actually mean something to those who share their thoughts and opinions that I enjoy. So the reward for me is essentially networking and the learning from people who interest me bring. But often times the connecting feels so impossible on steemit and an upvote is neccessary to be noticed.
I'll look in on you from time to time. Good Luck on your steemit endeavours and keep having fun!
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Thanks for those beautiful words! I really appreciate them.
Eventually, I changed my way of thinking about Steemit. Now, Steemit takes me to the world of writers. This beautiful place of my imagination, that was sleeping inside of me many years ago. My father remembered me, when I was a child, I usually wrote stories on paper and comics on my own. I'd forgot that.
Well, thanks to steemit, It has made me travel from places likes coffee shops, forest, desert and even space station called Asgardia through my writings
There's many really good posts here in steemit and I feel the same when I upvote a post and my vote has zero value too.
Thanks again!
Cheers!
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Thanks for your entry @jadams2k18
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Thanks @emjoe
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Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by jadams2k18 from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows. Please find us at the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
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