Thank you so much @promo-mentors for this contest to talk about the best gift one has ever received.
I have received so many gifts which are very precious even on the steem platform. I will briefly talk about a gift I received three months ago on the steem platform from @hefziba.
I was suppose to graduate last year from the university but did not make it because of financial issues I was having then in school. I then wrote an appeal on the platform for financial assistance to help pay the school fees for an extra year in school. The post couldn't raise 2sbd for me but then @hefziba, @paradise-found and @mickyscofield individually sent me sbd which amounted to 24 sbd and with that I was able to pay my fees.
Some days later I had a little discussion with @hefziba, she asked me some questions and I responded to her questions, she then wrote this open letter to me titled A letter to a steemit friend on the other side of the world.
A letter to @inspiredgideon1
Who has been an inspiration from the first moments on steemit.
Dear Gideon
You live in Nigeria and I live in the Netherlands, I never seen your world and neither have you seen mine. You are a student, I’m a working mum. We are also years apart in age, but I admire you regardless your youth. It is steemit that brought us together and made the bridge to see each other’s lives. You write about your live and the struggles you encounter, and I feel a part of it. A world so remote from mine, thousands miles away, but so similar still, as loving and losing loved ones is a universal binder in humanity.
I’m always amazed that people that don’t have a lot, give almost anything they have, and that giving makes them happy. You are one of these people. I give and it makes me happy, but the dent it makes in my own comfort is minimal, while the price you pay for giving is huge, not knowing if there will be enough next month.
You are a dedicated student, that needs to support yourself, I was a dedicated student, while my parents still supported me. I am planning to do the same for my kids, saving for them already since they are born, to make sure they can focus on their studies later, without the big worry of money.
And I ponder about the fact I can do this for my children, while you do not get this. Why is there this inequality in the world. I’m sure if you parents would have been able to earn enough, they would have given you extra money, instead of saying to take care of your money, as you won’t get any more when you left the house.
Money is such an important factor in life. Having enough solves a lot of problems. Having too little gives stress, having too much sometimes makes people unhappy as well, weirdly enough.
I asked you how much you need to live. You told me it’s hard to make an extra income on steemit with sbd dropping so rapidly in value. The pain people incounter who are hodlers don’t understand their pain is nothing in comparison to people that live on the extra steemit income. And the amount you stated is almost the same as I need to pay to afford my pets. Isn’t that horrific! . You are worth so much more than a pet in the Netherlands. You made the devision of money in the world painfully obvious to me, and I want to change this. And I believe it’s easy to change this.
With steemit I can support you a little, but I believe as a community we could do much more about this division and help each other out more than we do at the moment.
If people like me in the West, pick one friend in steemit that lives on some extra sbd income, and support them through these thin times, I believe that we will all be rewarded for it.
I pledge to you Gideon I will help you trough these dip in price, and I hope others will follow.
The sbd I create on steemit is yours, it’s not a huge amount, but two steemit bloggers are better than one. And may the dip be short.
Stay strong, keep studying.
You have a friend.
Hefziba
I felt loved by a mother who never knew my origin or if I was telling her lies or not. Ever since then she has being keeping to her words especially when the prices of steem and steem dollars are very low.
This love and many others prompted me and a few others to start up a charity account on the steem platform @steemminna to help the poor in the northern part of Nigeria. You can read the introductory post by clicking this link
@inspiredgideon1 The way the world works is miraculous. We found help from all over far and near. I cannot begin to give account of many times a stranger has helped me or the times I've offered one myself. It's good to give, to share and make others happy. I understand what you're doing there and give kudos to you for your hardwork and dedication. I wish you all the best. I hope soon I'll be able to support you in what you doing! All the best, man.
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Thank you friend. We all need each other to survive because man was not meant to be a lonely being.
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Very true...
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wow that's such an amazing story!!!! I'm so glad that she helped you=) I hope that you could finish your studies!
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Yea. Am done with the first semester. About to start the second semester and by december or before then, I should be done.
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