Hi Dearest Steemians,

I am here for more than two months now. It's been an incredible journey with remarkable milestones achieved in short period of time. The best part of my Steemit experience is the number of people I have already helped here.

Fun Fact:- I already made this post and unfortunately pressed the CLEAR button. I rise from the ashes again. Lol!

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The number of people helped can not be quantified. What can be quantified and seen are the mini milestones which are available on our blogs. I was already that kind of a person but @ryanbiddulph taught us how to improve transparency and earn more money.

What Ryan taught was about cerebrating small blogging wins. What is Steemit? A blogging platform. So here I am, sharing with you my small wins; any of which would not have been possible without Steemians' support.

Upvote Slider for Weight Adjustment

Ever since the Hard Fork 19, having a voting slider was a big dream for me. What it does is that it allows you to adjust the weight of votes that you give; saving the precious voting power and enabling you to give more upvotes.

Upvote Slider is enabled after anyone has 500 Steem Power in wallet. I have about 487+ now and there's 14+ that is delegated to me. So, the sum is over 500 SP. However, my slider has been enabled for a few days now, even before having 500 SP. I think 500 SP is not the hard and fast rule. I also think that vesting power is what matters here.

The dream is here and I can vote more. I will upvote every comment on this post (if it's not one word or spam) with some voting weight; the best getting 100 % upvotes.

Reputation Reaches 55

What a magical number. Not even a month ago, it seemed to be a big number to me. I would envy seeing people with 55 or more reputation. These people were the cool people on Steemit, having more influence and experience.

That's why I am happy to be 55 in just two months and a week. I know there are people who are faster than me but I know they put in a lot of effort or investment in Steemit. I have been fortunate to reach here but it has been a tiring effort. No pains, no gains!

Followers Crossed 800

800 followers in two months is an incredible number # for me again. Especially because I didn't ask people to follow me. Poeple followed out of their own thinking and decision and I thank them all. I thank you, the reader. Thanks to all the 834 people who have followed me as of now.

Gaining followers is not easy. Getting followers by mass following others, like Izbing does, is futile. So, the followers are ultimately an outcome of effort. If you and I want more followers, we'll have to interact more and put in more effort.

A Big Thank You!

To everyone who has ever supported me in any way. A massive, massive thank you to @ausbitbank (vote him for witness) for being so generous. Thank you @blocktrades for a few generous whale votes as well. Thankful to you, @jerrybanfield, for the Upvotafor initiative of yours. Thank you @aggroed for all your support for all minnows.

I have special regard for the people who comment on my posts and spread my helpful work by resteeming. Thanks to @diverse-thinker for nominating me in a competition that I won. Thanks to everyone else who ever nominated me anywhere for an award or reward.

Much Love,

Ilyas