I have just started on Steemit and I know I won't earn any Steem for posting a comment at this time, but it doesn't matter because I want you to know I understand. I have felt the exact same discouragement at least a thousand times in the last few months. I had to quit working to care for my dying mother almost two years ago and was so overwhelmed I couldn't take any freelance clients or do any other work. Yet somehow during that time I managed to start a very small business selling items with my artwork, quotes and poems. I had such great hopes for that little business.

My mother passed away a few months ago and since then everything has gone wrong with the business - and I mean everything! On top of that, I haven't been able to get a single client. With my finances falling apart around me, I have felt like just giving up on everything, but I have even been turned down for jobs cleaning houses, sigh.

So I know what it is like to put so much energy and time and HOPE into something... and to feel the pain of getting so little in return.

But don't give up. Because so many times, things have to fail, fall apart, come unglued, or just DIE... before they come to life and take flight.

Or so I am told. So I will choose to believe in that, and keep going - will you? I hope so!

P.S. I will try to join your Discord since I am new and will need all the encouragement I can get!