A Life Without Shortcuts: Staying True to Myself... and 500 Tweets Per Day!

Do you stay true to yourself? Do you stick to what is right for YOU, even when you are feeling pressured to "follow the herd?"

I was thinking about that, this morning, as I sat down to write a post, got a little ways in, and then realized that I just wouldn't have the time to write it out and finish it appropriately.

Tools of the slow and deliberate writer

I am — in my heart — "A Writer." That's what I enjoy doing. In spite of the fact that I have had an assortment of people tell me that Steemit is "not really a writing site," and "not really a blogging site," what I enjoy doing here is writing, and basically creating pretty posts.

I have actually been told that I am "wasting my time," and possibly even "putting people off" by writing any posts much longer than a few paragraphs. The dreaded "TL;DR" (aka: "Too Long; Didn't Read") would occasionally be brought out.

But when I think about that, I have never been a "bare minimum" sort of person, in ANY aspect of my life. My parents instilled in me the value of "doing your best" and "do things properly, or DON'T do them."

I suppose our values and inner sense of "rightness" are challenged all the time.

For example, I consider the possibility that maybe I am "doing it wrong," because I see relatively minimal posts earn $50 rewards... and I start to question the validity of my approach because it feels like I am somehow "failing" as a result of not just out there going "click-clickety-click" for dollars, with not a care as to whether or not I am adding lasting "value" to the Steem ecosystem, or the Internet, or life in general. Is it possibly my way that's "wrong," rather than theirs?

Maybe it doesn't matter.

The preceding moment of insecurity was brought about by a quick visit to my twitter account, where I once again was reminded that the way some people "do" social media is to bombard people with a non-stop stream of every single thought and action that person has in the course of a day.

How the hell can someone tweet 500 times a day???

Moreover, who the hell finds that interesting???

But then again, maybe they are also staying true to themselves.

In the end, maybe staying true to yourself is merely about walking your talk, and doing what you believe is right. And accepting the reality that "your way" may not be the most popular or most successful way... but as long as you're not harming anyone, just stick to it!

In my case, that means there are no shortcuts and creation of messy posts, just because I don't have time...

Thanks for reading, and hope you're having a great week!

How about YOU? What does "staying true to yourself" mean to YOU? Are you comfortably doing things your own way, even in the face of pressure to take a different way? Give me a shout back... Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment — share your experiences — be part of the conversation!

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