MY STEEMIT BIRTHDAY

FRIENDS, I've a double holiday: my Steemit anniversary and my Steemit birthday!

Is it the same? No, not exactly;)

The thing is I really have my first **anniversary but from the date of registration, not from the day when I really started to write my blog and take it seriously. It happened 3 months later.

But it's a registration anniversary now, the time when I first entered this magic world;)

But if I started my blog 3 months later, so for now I've been here for 9 months, and it's the same with pregnancy period, so ... my blog has just been born, and now it's the Birthday!;))

A crazy idea, I know;) After 9 months of waiting and developing, a new life appears, and I've made a parallel with my 9 months on Steemit;)

Our babies are parts of our souls, we try our best to grow and develop them. All that we do are our "babies" in some sense, because it's also parts of ourselves, right?
So I consider my blog as my creauture, a piece of me, just like a baby:)

So how did Steemit influence my life?

Actually, greatly!

1. I become more friendly and open to communication, though it was rather hard for me, I'm a "closed" person according to my nature
2. I try to refresh and revitalize my English skills that were lost because of lack of practice during many years
3. and the most important I become more confident now, I started to believe in myself!

I registered here and didn't start my blog because I didn't believe I would be able to do it...

No English skills - how will I read, understand and reply?! How will I write? It will be funny and miserable for native speakers!

What can I add to the platform that is so popular in the world and has so many users? I will be lost and invisible here!

The platform exists for 2 years, and I just won't be able to find MY place here.

This is just some of my fears before coming here. But I came. After 3 motnhs I decided to try.

My first bright memory is connected with @canadian-coconut blog. I was looking through popular articles and saw a nickname that caught my attention. To tell you the truth, I just adore coconuts;) Smell, taste - everything;) So i couldn't pass by;)

From the first look I was impressed how deep and wise this person was! Linda's articles about vaccination touched my heart because I had the same opinion about it but I didn;t have a chance to speak loud about it in life - too much pressure and hate from people who are fans of medicine and vaccines.

I was impressed that a woman here could speak so free and loud about it, and many people supported her! I doubted long, I was shy, but at last I wrote my first comment to Linda's article...

I saw she had so many comments, she couldn't reply to all of them, and I even didn't hope. but a miracle!! She replied! I was so happy!! Somebody read my comment and replied!! So my English could be not perfect but understandable for others, and my opinion was noticed too!

It was my first impulse to start writing about themes that worried me or were interesting to me.

I know it can seem funny, but it really was so, and it had a huge meaning for me!

Sometimes even tiny things can change so much in our life.

It was just one from hundreds of comments for Linda, but she didn't ignore it, she found some minutes to reply, and she even didn't know My blog was "conceived" at that moment;)

I started to believe I could share my thoughts here and get understanding and supprot, and it would be so important to me.

I hope Linda is reading it now, you can't imagine how thankful I am to you!

From that time I found some interesting people here, whom I support, who support me, and whom I just deeply love and respect!

@markwhittam, @lyndsaybowes, @d-pend, @nainaztengra, @steeminganarchy, @kirkins, @kafkanarchy84, @svamiva, @master-set, @kotturin, @as-i-see-it, @galca, @celsius100, @cosmicvibration, @cranium, @kristinaljfom, @herverisson, @rusty-jernigan

There are not so many of them, but they all are just amazing!

it's better to have a few good friends than a crowd of those who are just fakes.

LOVE YOU, My friends! THANK YOU FOR BEING NEARBY!!

One more important achievement (my friends are my achievement and award here, yeah!) is my participation in @familyprotection community.

This theme is close to me because I've a logical fear for my family, and I'm happy being a part of this great mission.

Some people are surprised I donate more than rules of the community require. They say: "Don't you need money? Are you too rich?!!"

I don't waste my time for expalining because if they have such questions, they will hardly understand my motivation.

Of course, I do need money for solving my definite problems, I am NOT rich at all, BUT I've a call of my soul, I feel happy having a chance to help other people in their tragedies.

Sorry for being too verbose:)

Happy Birthday to my blog!;))