Hello Steemians, i'd like to introduce myself and embark on a journey with you.

Hello Steemit! 

My name is Leon,

i'm a 29 years old student from germany and found steemit while learning about crypto currencies. I'm amazed by this platform and already addicted to it. I believe that this is the social media platform of the future and we will see a drastic increase in usage in the next 1-3 years. I'm happy to contribute to this great community and can't wait to start embarking on this journey with you.

What are my plans?!:

My blog shall become my own personal way of contributing to a better future. I am convinced that we need more discussions about social, political and daily life problems. It seems that more and more people are retreating into their shells, leaving the difficult/painful topics, which happen to be the most relevant, for others to solve. I think its self centred, often egoistic. Maybe it's fear to run into conflict with someone for standing up for your own opinion. 

What happens is that we give up more and more power and hand it to the ones in charge, big corporations, institutions, governments and wealthy individuals. We have become accustomed to caring about ourselves and our own "problems". We believe that our governments will handle the rest. It seems that people think of protest as an extremist behaviour, abnormal and radical. My parents generation was different. They went on the streets, protesting whenever there was reason for it. Today it's quite rare to see people stand up and fight back.

I would like to contribute by encouraging people to engage in social and political discussions. I believe that we as human beings and society as a whole can only evolve into something greater if we start new dialogues. We need to realize that dispute is necessary in order to progress. If everyone were of the same opinion we would never change, we would never have new ideas, new insight. Imho, constructive criticism is the essence of change. 

With a new consensus comes the responsibility to act. I treasure the internet and platforms like this, but we also need to act after we have discusses, debated and agreed. I hope that one day i will be able to transform this Blog into an actual movement or at least a way to influence people to stand up and protest more frequently. I myself, pledge to become more active and act on my believes!

Let's not be afraid of having an opinion, let's not be afraid of being wrong. Let's be open for a different opinion and find new consesus. Let's accept our counterpart and agree that there is the likely possibility that we are wrong. 

Let's find out and engage in a merry journey of discussions. I'm open for any topics and i'm looking forward to your feedback and comments.

Greetings, Leon (Embu) :)

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