Success on steemit - no recommendations, just personal thoughts post based of half year of every day steeming

I have seen such a lot of articles and posts about "How to reach success on steemit". Some of them written by old members, some even by newbies (which is kind of strange, but anyway). 

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I also was seeking for a best solution for myself, and had a list in my head, banality like "don't spam" (hey, really, don't. It leads to down vote and loose of reputation, not to high rewards and success). And read the post by @charles1. You can find it here. Join the anti-spam war, the time really came.

Once I got desolated. It was last weekend, when I even wrote some kind of a whining post asking myself and the others about whyyyyy?

A weeks passed, I kept thinking about that. And reviewing all my personal steemit experience.

I joined a bit more then half year ago, 7 months to be specific. Of course, in that times it was so much easier to get noticed, then at this moment. But it was not only because there were much less users here, then now, but also because no one even thought about making spam posts. With a single photo, and even more then that - stolen single photo. I remember that at that time we really were building the community. 

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If to talk about my rewards at that time - they were really not homogeneous. Sometimes I got lucky, sometimes not, but I always was commented, and not with "good post" bullshit like it happens now in 80% cases. Really, no one even admitted an opportunity of such behavior. Imagine that?:)

Then HF-18 came, and it still was about building community. All rewards became zero, and for a couple of hours we all became 25 reputation again. I remember how Silvia Beneforti said:

"We're all in the same boat now"

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After HF-18 the 4 posts per day limit was canceled. And despite the fact that for a month all rewards were super low, like 1-2 cents for a post, we all kept going and posting, I even done it more.

Well, it's just a kind of intro. Now the berries.

As I said already for million times I'm a highly introverted person, and IRL I don't talk much at all. But blogging is a perfect opportunity for me to communicate, and that's why I really enjoy doing it. Sharing my art and thoughts, without real social interactions -  I was meant to be born in the century of blogging.

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But still there's one thing I'm trying to manage with. Be myself in my blog. As I said in the title - I'm not giving any recommendations here about getting high rewards and this type of success. It already became completely clear for me that it's a lottery, sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. That's what life looks like.

But what is really important for me here - communication. I will not lie, of course rewards too, at the moment mainly because I dream about making a lasik, vision is an important thing for an artist, you know. And the operation is really expensive. But!

Communication and meeting great people on-line is a wonderful possibility for an introverted sociopath like me. Meeting people that share your interests - twice valuable. And this is what happened to me here. Again, I will not lie, my social anxiety sometimes bites me even here, and that's why my goal at the moment is to learn how to communicate.

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How to stop feeling myself uncomfortable and feel free to blog about the things I really like. How to discuss them and find out other people opinions. Don't get me wrong - I'm not that creepy as it may look from the text, but anyway 0 I have problems with social interactions and I admit it. And I will keep writing my thoughts about it as long as I'm seeking for the solution:)

This everything leads me to the main point. To the decision I made for myself, and the only advice I can give to you and myself.

Be yourself. In your blog - just be yourself. Sounds simple, sometimes not that simple to do, especially for persons like me. 

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Blog about what you like and what makes you happy. Don't be afraid to suck at it, it's a inalienable part of every development. Take blogging also as a possibility for personal development, as I already said, here I blog every day for more then 6 months, and every time to create a new interesting post I have to do something interesting first. Or read. Or draw. Anyway - I have to make my life brighter first, receive some new experience to share it afterwards. And this is how the platform makes me grow every day. And this is what I'm thankful for.

As always, the one who will comment with nice post/good post/keep up the great work - will be burned on inquisition fire:) This is also a part of my personality, by the way, I don't like spam and I don't like when someone tells me what to do:)