I was a little hesistant to post, ever wondering what my post should be about. But for now I'm all set on something that came to mind while taking a walk around midnight.
It was rainy and cloudy all day, the last few days already, to be exact. So at nighttime not a single person would be outside, although it's summer. Unless me. I'm not too good with encounters, especially with strangers, so I tend to take walks at night.
Deciding where to go the riverside is my favourite choice. Rivers are calm and relaxing. While my usual route partway has no streetlights, it was pretty dark with the cloudy sky above and I feared it might rain again soon. But instead, halfway through that dark path the clouds cracked open. With the moon shining, the stars above and still nobody to be seen I just felt so much at ease.
And then this random thought hit me. Isn't this kind of feeling what I hope to find on this platform?
To most of you steemit might be business-related. Of course money is nice and I could need some too. But I'm not so deep into the cryptomarket yet and I would have welcomed any other way to get my thoughts spread. But with german law, as soon as you are going to start your own blog, you are obligated to give your real data, name and adress, visible for every stranger who might happen to stumble across it.
This kind of law made the idea of blogging as terrifying as walking around in daylight to me. And then someone told me about steemit. A community of posts, as far as I see it for now, not a blog, and nothing is forcing on verification.
So it feels kind of the same to me. I might just sit under a tree, watching everything around me get illuminated in the dim moonlight, feeling glad to not be recognised, but still, being who I am. I'm the one to decide, if I want to step out of the trees shadow or will stay until the sunrise, to be seen in the end.