It took my around a year and a half, but I finally got where I did want to be!
I can proudly call myself a dolphin in the big steem ocean.
I do know that some only do consider you a dolphin when steemitboard call you a dolphin, so here is the proof!

The numbers

It took me:

• 787 posts
• 9329 comments
• 8373 received replies
• 11697 upvotes
• 40112 times being upvoted.

Some fiat investments and some good and bad steem investments.
I could have been here earlier but the dice apps took there part. Not complaining about it, but a fact is a fact!
And of course I do have to thank a lot of people for interacting with me or supporting me! I am not going to write names, because for sure I would forget some. That ones who do deserve my thanks will know it themselves!

It is a complete new blockchain compared to my start!

Well things change and steem has changed a lot in the past 1,5 years. When I did start there was no actifit, no steemmonsters, no gambling dapps and for sure not a lot of different tokens and condensers.
I do had to grow at the start with commenting. I did master that for some time. So thanks to all the bigger accounts who did reward my genuine comments with upvotes.

Now steem has turned into a complete different game. I do feel that interaction is decreasing. That can change again with the different tribes, but still.
The tribes are like the early days of steem and most of them are ruled by a set of whales. They do direct the growth of your account. If you want to become big in a tribe, you will need to be lucky or you will have to invest quite some steem into it!
Not sure if I do want either of those actions! The most of them look more or less like upvote circles! Where the big accounts support each other and trow some small support to the ones out of their circle. Not that I do blame then, because I have done the same on a crypto blockchain different than steem!

I will focus on some of the tribes but not too passionate!

What now?

I will not set a new target. I am even thinking about decreasing my steem activity. In the past 1,5 years I did spend a lot of free time to the steem blockchain. So it is time to get my real life back :).
If I would have set a new target I would continue like I was doing, writing a daily post, commenting and interacting. I do think that I am undergoing some steem fatigue. Also during my last holiday I wasn't so active on Steem and to be honest I didn't miss it a lot. So I did understand that there is life outside the steem blockchain! Yes there is!

So, I will not be so addicted anymore. I will not force myself to write a daily post. I will write if I want to write or do think that I have something meaningful to say!

It would be great if Steem could grow back to it is all-time high! That would be a blast. That would increase the value of my account up to $40K. But with my luck, almost no chance at all that this will happen in the near future!

I for sure will decrease my steem gambling related activities! Not that I am going to stop, but I wont play them anymore to mine tokens. I also revoked all delegations to the gambling dapps besides 1!

I will continue to play steemmonsters, next.colony and drugwars (which still grants you a steem per day if you want).

I also will keep most of my SP to myself. I will not increase my delegations besides to one @ocdb, which I do want to lift to 1K SP delegated! I do want to keep on curating manually for most of my SP.

You know what nothing has changed since I did reach dolphinhood. I am still the same person, I still do have the same feeling about steem and it's tribes, tokens and condensers! Nothing has changed! And it has, I reached my goal and to be honest I am proud of that!

So this is no goodbye but just a hello a little bit less often!

Cheers,
Peter