How Steemit Changed Me

in #writing6 years ago

It's been a year since I signed up for Steemit. The first time I knew about it, I was both hesitant and amazed. I had lots of questions like,

how do you earn with just writing and through votes?
where did they get the money?
what is cryptocurrency and how does it work?

With my first meetup I got to understand how steemit really works. @themanualbot and @fernwehninja explained to us about steemit, cryptocurrency, blockchain and many other terminologies that deepened my understanding of this virtual world. I was more inspired to write when steemians started to share their experiences like @itinerantph's love for travelling, @tegoshei's passion for drawing and animé and @bien's homesteading. I will never forget them saying that we should enjoy writing rather than just earning.

What have I become so far?

I may not have given much of my time to steemit and was not always there in all meet ups. Yet, there are aspects of my life in which steemit has influenced : Social, Travel, Education, Expression, Monetary, Innovation and Time Management.

Social

Meet-ups had been a way for me to set aside the introvert side of me. Though I felt awkward meeting new faces and starting conversations with people I just met, but I thought to myself, it was not such a struggling thing to do. Human beings are natural social beings. We always have the urge to belong to a community, a group or a family.

My first steemit meet-up

Chemical engineering Steemians

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Worked with friends during the Steem Summit

Travel

Usually, when I travel, I only look for famous spots and delicacies. Steemit, gave me a glimpse of different perspectives of travelling. Now, I started to look for in a place for its uniqueness. I also made sure to document all the special moments during my travel so that it would be easier for me to share to others who also wanted to go to the places that I went.

Onboard the Indigenous Motorelas of Mindanao


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Education

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or tools to read.
-Stephen King

True enough, if you don't make time to read, how would you be able to read or edit what you have written. He may also meant reading as learning. You can't write something you don't have any idea of such topic. Even if you are tasked something to write without knowledge of it, you most probably research or ask experts on the subject matter.

With steemit, I got to learn more things. Even if I am in the middle of writing something, I still do research to make my post more meaning and verify what I know if it is real.


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Expression

As I've mentioned on my post on confidence project, I was having a hard time expressing myself. Now, I get to express myself through writing in different forms. I got hooked in making haikus and Filipino poems.


Story Haiku # 14: Archaic


Filipino Poetry # 1: Ano ba tong nangyayari sa akin?

Monetary

We can't deny that one of our motivations for posting is to have an extra income. I am proud to say that the earnings I got helped me to bring happiness last Christmas - both for others and to myself.

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Celebrating Christmas with loved ones

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Relax pag may time

Innovation

There are times that I have that writer's block. I can't really think of something to post in steemit. Steemit made me to be innovative in thinking different topics to write that would be an interest to the readers. I would search on trending topics or latest news.


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Time management

Balancing my time among work, house chores, writing and other sidelines is bit a challenge. Sometimes one task would require more time than the usual. Though, I was still able to juggle everything.


Time is DEFINITELY NOT Gold..

Why I stayed

With the diving of cryptocurrency, so does the inspiration of some to write faded. To be honest, I for one posted fewer than before. But even if I became scarce in the steemit world, I knew within me, the STEEMIT aspect stayed.

Love lots,

@wandergirl

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Greetings @wandergirl i am amage to your journey and story here on steemit. Yes! always enjoy writing and be at your self for who your and specialy the most important is you always love what you are doing..

By the way i wanted to invite you to join us at dtube community and i promise you to be always part of your journey here on steemit. if you want to be part of our family777 linkseven77 you can make you introduction video about your self your talents and projects..you can read more on @nathanmar and @nathanmars7 post.

Contact me if you need more questions..

Happy Steeming friend!

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hi @bien! thanks for the invite. I'm still not comfortable making videos of myself. Maybe soon I'll try that.

Watch my videos listen to my english to made you inspired doing your own video..😂😂

I'm not that good in english but i still make my own video to have fun for the community :))

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Sure! I'll check those out.

by the way i miss that meet ups.. :)

me too..so quiet these days..

You too @ybanezkim26! Let's bring some noise back..😉

Hello @wandergirl! Yes, the joy of writing and expressing yourself is priceless... It makes you feel relaxed and happy. You get to discover more of yourself and reflect on a bunch of different things. I'm glad to meet you here. See you around~! ^^

PS: The monetary part is just a great bonus. <3

Thanks @tegoshei for the inspiration.. 😉

anytime... :D

Meet up? Haha kumusta namo dira?

haluuuu @wandergirl naghangos pa intawn ko hehehehe miss u <3 <3

Darryll's in Singapore. Xayd's busy with her trail run training. Abi's enjoying her pole dancing. Jay's busy with his Master's thesis.

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I don't think I've seen your posts before, but this is a nice long post about what Steemit brought to your life. Have fun during the rest of your Steemit adventure :)

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