The Best Thing I did with My STEEM? | Steem Sri Lanka 3G Contest Series | 5% to SL-Charity

Steemit and gave me a lot of happiness and lots of steem. But I have used very few of steem in my real life. Once I purchased an oven for my sister-in-law by spending 22 SBD and that is the only good I have purchased with my steem so far.

But more than that, there is something better I have done with my steem. 😊

It is my Steem Power!

#spud4steem encouraged me to increase my steem power. My steemit success story started in June 2020 even though my account is old.

During the past 10 months, I could raise 20 800 SP in my account. Among them around 6 600 SP are newly purchased and rest of steem power raised by curation rewards, author rewards and powering up steem coming from SBD rewards.

Why I am So Happy About This?

1. Do you know how much STEEM worth in LKR?
   If the steem price is 0.67$ and 1 LKR = 194.55 $ it will produce 2 711 248.8 LKR for 20 800STEEM. I have never thought to click power down button for my steem power. If I had this amount in my hand I could finish the house that we are building or I could purchase land or property. If steem is 1.20$ ?🤗 never mind I will hold it.

2. Why my Steem Power is a lot to me?
   I have delegated my steem power to last digit for two initiatives. #spud4steem and @steem-sri.lanka

I delegate to #spud4steem prize with my pleasure and one day when I finish building @steem-sri.lanka I will add more to #spud4steem.

I delegate all my SP day by day to @steem-sri.lanka. There was a huge price up where most of my collaterals started powering down. Some were for selling and some were with better future preparations. It demotivated me for a while, what should I do with my SP. I had two options, remove my delegation from @steem-sri.lanka and power down or hold it. It was clear all financial benefits were there for my side. But if I did a single move of my SP from @steem-sri.lanka it would reverse all our members' effort of the past 6 months. And on other hand, I had no interest to step back from my target of being an orca one day.

Building a community account isn't easy. When the community is not rich enough to purchase large amounts of steem power it is more difficult. Believe the first set of steem I purchased for #spud4steem, 2220 STEEM. I lived by my parent's money and the salary total of both of them is lower than 2220 STEEM. 😔 My boyfriend funds me to purchase steem because I wanted to win #spud4steem. I never pressure my friends to delegate @steem-sri.lanka but they also do the same as me and that's why I love them.

All the sacrifices of members ended up with the following results before other mature, older, crowded and rich country-based community curator accounts. This is the best thing I ever did with my STEEM.

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I am happy 104 accounts are benefited from my steem power with more rewards than this SP in my account.

I am happy @steem-sri.lanka hit 100K with very limited resources we have. I am happy because I have contributed 19% of this amount.

I am happy for not being selfish.

I am happy because I will purchase again..

To me, it is impossible to be a Whale. But if I try I can be an Orca one day! 30K more to go!

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