Two Interesting Steemians I Found

I've read great things about the Pay It Forward Curation Contest (@PIFC) which is in its 25th week already, a contest to promote original content authors with reputation 55 or below who aren't getting much attention. I recently came across these two steemians and considered featuring them for my first entry, but I couldn't feature them for one reason or another. So, I'll just write about them here instead.

Philip Kavan

@philipkavan is a young blogger from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is on Steemit since August 2018. I first ran into him (or rather, he ran into me) when he commented on my post where I said I had received help to buy my Steem Monsters starter pack, and he said he had previously written talking about how he had won a card in a giveaway, but gotten devastated when he found out that players need to buy a $5 starter pack to be able to play the game. Then I went to check his blog. He mostly writes blog/diary style posts talking about what happens in his Steemit life, as well as the happenings in his offline life. He writes in a casual and sincere way, and adds his personal touch even to shorter posts. I think he's on the right track, but he's barely getting upvotes or comments in his posts.

His Steemit life posts include his story of how he almost fell to an abuser's fake "introduceyourself" post, and then GTG came to the rescue:

• A fraud almost stole $9 worth of rewards from us, by using a stock image and fake profile description

His offline life posts include his struggles with the scorching heat:

• When This Terrible Heat Will Stop

And also an original fiction he is writing, titled, "The Boy Whose Life Fell Apart," which currently has two chapters.

• The Boy Whose Life Fell Apart:Chapter-1:The Letter From Germany
• The Boy Whose Life Fell Apart: Chapter-2: The Boy with a Silver Spoon in His Mouth

I wanted to do something to help him so that he gets more recognition, and eventually reaches the goal to buy the Steem Monsters starter pack to join the game. But as a small fish myself, there isn't much I can do. Then I remembered about the Pay It Forward Curation Contest (@PIFC), where he could get some help from the community, and I thought of featuring him. But someone beat me to it, and I didn't get to feature him. Well, I'm glad that there are more people trying to help him out. I hope he wins something in the contest!

Bekahluu

Still looking for a steemian to feature in PIFC, I found @bekahluu. She is a woman from New Zealand who is living in Australia. She joined Steemit in June 2017 (here is her "introduceyourself" post), but hasn't been getting many upvotes, much less comments. Her posts talk about what happens in her life, with pictures and nice descriptions. She is currently on vacation in Japan, and visited a Pokemon Center! As a Pokemon fan myself, her post grabbed my attention immediately.

Image source: picture taken by @bekahluu, found in her post linked below.

• BEX BLOGS :: Tokyo Adventures - Pokemon Center 😁

As much as I would have liked to feature her in the Pay It Forward Curation Contest, they have a minimum 200 words requirement for featured posts. While her posts are well-written, they are around 150 words, and this means I can't feature her. So, here she is.

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This post was published from Steempeack.com (@steempeak), and uses the "beneficiaries" feature to share this post's rewards with the featured steemians. Once this post pays out, 10% of the rewards will automatically go to @philipkavan, and 10% will go to @bekahluu. I know it isn't much, but should be better than nothing!