It was just a few days ago when I came across the post of @greatketty of Steem-BRU (BY-RU-UA) about the contest which encourages one to share her/his Steemit history with everyone in the community.

The contest really excites me as I am also very willing to share my journey in Steemit, hoping that it could somehow inspire or motivate the Steemians especially the beginners, in one way or another.

My start on the platform was not as tough as my other first times. I got a strong support team, my friends who tirelessly checked on how did I do in Steemit. They were the ones who backed me up, like untangled what puzzled me in my starting days on the platform and led me to progress I had vaguely foreseen myself. As for them, no one should be left behind.

I joined Steemit in July 2017. I heard of it from a friend @bien who was a month ahead of me on the platform. At first, I didn't show much interest in it since my catch about it then was just too limited and shallow. Up until it became a word of mouth of my close friends, I registered. Eventually, I got hooked on it.

A few hours after my Steemit account was verified I started my very first blog. It was just a photo captioned with a single paragraph tellin' how did I spend my 3-hour break from the classroom teaching.

With that post, I had gained a new acquaintance. She dropped a comment, and then we started to converse amicably. @rubnawaz is her Steemit name. I figured she also had just registered way back then.

That very first blog just gained 2 votes, one from me and the other one was from @rubnawaz. I knew it usually goes like that in the starting moments. I just kept goin', and continued sharing randoms. But, most of my starting blogs were about my travels, that led me to label myself Outdoor Enhusiast.

Later, I made a getaway series which were dicussin' about my travels around Cebu. I got here my getaway series 1, 2, 3.

I continued. After a couple of blogs, let me say, my break on the platform had fin'lly come. I got featured by @steemph.cebu as one of the best authors for its Weekly Feature of Authors. I felt so blessed to have been awarded. I was never expecting, but of course I was hoping and praying for it. Like who would not like that? It was such a great honor for a small writer like me.

Then, one time, I came across the post of @dobartim about the Steemit Ultimate Challenge he hosted. The challenge was about sharing one's Steemit Success Story, like how did Steemit change your life. I posted my entry, and that was first time I participated a Steemit challenge. Though I didn't win, but the challenge still turned out okay. My circle of friends on the platform had increased. From then, I had gained enough motivation. And that's what my first participation had brought me.

I joined discord channels and continued to make a lot of friends. I really was having fun casually conversing with steemians around as if we had met in person.

My stay in Steemit was made even merrier as @steemph.cebu organized a monthly meetup of Steemians of Cebu. I had my first attendance on the 3rd meetup already. Back then, we were only seven. I thought we were just that few, but many had just not made it that day. As the monthly meetup continued, the community of Steemit in Cebu had also gone big. There were hundreds attendees already on the last meetup I had attended.

I was very active, that in a day, I got to have a blog posted on my Steemit wall. I commented on others' posts, upvoted and resteemed blogs. But, a year after, I got preoccupied, I got a lot on my plate, and I needed to attend to them. My workload had gotten heavy, at the same time, I needed to pursue my graduate studies. And I couldn't juggle with other things anymore. So, I paused blogging, I felt the need. But, I had plan of gettin' back.However, there was no definite time

The pause had taken quite some time, like 3 years. But, I am now back, cheerfully swimming in the Steemit ocean again!

Everything in my past here was a history worth lookin' back to.

Now, I am challenging @fabio2614 @kyrie1234 @juichi to share their Steemit history with everyone around.