Here how my attitude changed from rewards seeker to steemian who value community.

    Hi steemian, when i first join this platform my attitude was as same as dealing with cryptocurrency, to be honest i was suspicious and careful, the concept of social media in a blockchain operated by cryptocurrency make me think about it as a place to earn easy money only , actually steemit introduced to me as a place where you can get easy lunch. I was dealing with steemit like Poloniex or Bittrex (trading platform) in term of privacy.

     I joined with my family name as sort of anonymity and i put a random picture in my profile,  back then i posted some blogs about Altcoin, with time i have been expose to very nice and warm community overall so i started to love the place and decided to post my introduction blog after like 4 weeks from joining steemit.

              
                                    me checking steemit at work (hospital) end of my duty

Blog changed my attitude

  That blog made my day, i was a newbie who gradually start to love the place and want to get involve in steemit, my reputation was about 30, anyway i posted a blog bout my self, wrote it in quickly so it has some mistakes and it has poor quality in term of text editing. A storm of warm welcoming comments started and rain of upvotes all day.
  I woke up next morn to find my little blog got 200 vote, seen by 190 steemian and have 55 comments, that was huge for a newbie, my reputation went from 30 to 50 in one day, i got upvoted by @ned (it is a chance to thank him and stag him here also 😊 ), i was WHAAAAT is it Ned one of the founder? maybe it is faqe account how can a founder get time to read steemian blog? i checked it, out its real. this is getting interesting, the introduction blog got like 111$ but comments and reading was more valuable to me.
you can take a look (introduction blog)

@steevc in the second day mention me in his blog (follow Friday) and wrote about how is awesome to know new people from different part of the world (i am Sudanese from Africa), i didn't know Steev before and i was impressed by his nice attitude and friendly personality, Thank you Steev.

Since then i share my personal thought freely and comfortably, now i think about steemit really as my closest online social platform (almost abandon facebook), great community.

@hilarski , @tfeldman , @kyusho  and others always check out on me and i do the same, i started to know more about steemian and really care about them, check out there blog, upvote what i like, comment and resteem some time.  

Then i met @justtryme90, @tommycordero, @immorjas, @acidyo, @achim86 and others, forgive me if my memory didn't help me, very nice people, i am glad i know them, every now and then we meet in my blog or their blog.

Some just upvote without comment, some i think human and other bots but am grateful anyway.

I am enjoying open-mic, steemit-photo-challenge and cryptocurrency blogs

@fulltimegeek tips me once with 6 STEEM, just as appreciation, it was nice welcoming attitude.
I like and use  @elyaque padges some time
@pfunk helped me establish steemitclinic channel in steemit chat
@screenname mentioned me many time
@curie some time put may name in their blogs
@steemtrail gave me a trail token once

 

I realized that i started to enjoy steemit when i stopped thinking about it as only money factory, of course rewards is vital, its in fact what make steemit unique but it won't make me enjoy that much here, if my intention didn't change i would have left in first month.

Finally, I want to thank all steemian who make me realize that this is a great platform because of community and there is more valuable things here than rewards, those good steemian who make this place better every day.
Thank you 
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