Thank You Steemit! (300 followers!) 500 Doge Giveaway (One Winner!) #givebacktime

A word to my followers:

Thank you, If I could emulate my humble sincerity to you in the form of text, I would hope that these words are being received with love, compassion,and empathy. Most of my followers are minnows. I know this because I frequent the #introduceyourself thread regularly, and welcome new users all the time, with my offer of help and support.

Source: https://blogaboutwriting.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/a-little-minnow-in-a-very-big-pond/

Many of these new users follow me. I don't know if it's because of my exhaustive measures of thoughtfully connecting to my readers gets noticed, or if some of them just like to follow others, and be a part of something. I'm sure both aspects are true.

Admittedly, in the begging, I made many of the minnow mistakes we all make, but I was able to learn from them, and share my acquired knowledge with others. One of the mistakes I learned from early on, was to not ask around on Steemit for followers. It may seem trivial (and I felt slighted at the notion), but I gave it some thought,and the conclusion I drew to was this:

"How can I expect like minded individuals to gain exposure to my works of art, if I spend my time trying to connect with people who spend time trying to connect with people just for that purpose?"

What a conundrum.

Today I noticed I had a follower who has 12,000 followers+ and he followed 14,000+ What are the odds of him stumbling on my post and taking the time to appreciate it? Probably minimal, since I've never heard from him to begin with. What I also noticed, were his average post payouts are 25 cents. This is quite minimal for 12,000 followers. Clearly he spends most of his time looking for useless connections.

But I didn't write this to criticise the actions of others.

I wrote this to say thank you to my followers!

Source: http://moziru.com/explore/Celt%20clipart%20celtic%20heart/

And to say thank you further, I've decided to give back some of my earnings from Steemit (in the form of DOGECOIN) to one of my followers.

I don't care what your reputation score is!

There is no stipulations. No need to resteem this, or upvote. Nothing, except for one. You must be one of my followers.

This is a payout for 1 person only.

The first person to comment with a valid dogecoin address gets 500 dogecoin (2.5 Dollars USD) deposited to their address.

I am obviously a devout Dogecoin supporter(as well as STEEM! ) and I do these little giveaways once in a while. This is my way of saying thank you.

If the 500 Dogecoin is not redeemed after 7 days, I will close the giveaway, and make a new post opening it up for everyone, but for now, it's only for my followers.

Thanks you all! You are the best! @futuremind