My feelings and thoughts for being on Steemit for 2 Years!!

Hello Steemians,

Time flies!! I can't believe its already been two years. I am just noticing this badge I received now. lol It was from 8 days ago. Technically that be two years and 8 days lol !

That went really quick and I still love it here. I don't make any where near some of the money other people make but that never stopped me from posting still two years later. I am back down to a few pennies a post. I did power-down to the very last of my steem monies but I used that towards my new laptop I have had now for a few months. It was put to good use and that to me is a win. I still share my art-work and updates on projects every spare moment I get. I may not post every single day, but that doesn't mean I still don't have the passion for this community and platform.

The people here are still great, I still talk to a lot of people I met when I first joined and that to me is more important then the steem pennies I get every so often for my posts. Don't get me wrong, I still dream of the day I wake up and I made a really good post and it goes viral, but the difference between now and about a year ago is I am not stressing about it.

I remember when I first joined I'd post every single day and try to dip my nose into every single group and community I could. That did help but there was a ton of drama that came with it as well. So, I back tracked focused on my art and tried my best to post that every single day. I noticed it was still a gamble on making any good money, now don't take that in a bad way, but steemit to me and has been for a long time already all about the people with the big whale accounts. You get some of them on your side and in turn almost every single one of your posts or the majority would see some money. It's a circle of helping out everyone in that circle, and its very very hard to get into that party.

I am not about kissing ass, and sucking up to the powers that be. I like being myself. I don't like causing drama for money either which I see on here all the time. Someone posts something really crazy gets the hype train going, uses the bots to get it to the front of the page and bam, the post is worth 500 to 1k. Don't get me wrong people will make there money any way they could but I wish it was easier for quality posts to make a nice amount of steem dollars every so often. I still see a lot of talented artists, photographers and writiers on here that don't make anywhere near what some others make and to me thats sad, they deserve the recognition. Thats the gripes I have with steemit, onto the positives.

Steemit is still in my opinion the best crypto-currency social media platform \ website around to date. There is a lot of other copy cats sites that don't come anywhere close to what Steemit has accomplished. From steepshot to dtube and dlive, these things are skyrocketing with popularity and thats an awesome accomplishment. It keeps it decentralized and open and free to the people who want to express themselves. Steemit still gives tons of opportunities to people in other countries who could not voice there opinion in a free manner, and also gives them a chance to make a little bit of money as well that may be hard to come by. Every cent counts and Steemit really helped a ton of people world wide.

So two years on steemit! I will definitely be around for a few more, the magic of this community keeps bringing me back.

When theres good, there is always bad, but I stay on the good side regardless of a viral post or not.

As always,

Stay humble, work hard and Steem on!!