RE: HOW ONE STRONG LINK CAN SUPPORT THE STEEMIT CHAIN
@terminallyill, very lovely to meet you through this post! It's a Gratitude post!!
Your honest account of struggles and challenges as a minnow were clearly explained and can be understood by most of us newbies!
The story of how you emerged from that zone of discouragement resulted in this beautiful, heart-felt tribute to your Steemit "angels", @cryptkeeper17 and @markkenard! Clearly their appearance in your life was a "turning point"!
Allow me to point out, this declaration of gratitude to your two deserving mentors, not only speaks to who THEY are but it also tells a lot about who YOU are!
Clearly you are a talented individual whose "discouragement plummet" was fortuitously interrupted by these two men! You took and learned from their advice and experience. Most importantly, you remembered to say "THANK YOU"!
Like you, I have my angels! One of them you have already identified - the amazing @davemccoy and the unbelievable community at #newbieresteemday! I will always be grateful for what they did/do for me, and what they continue to do on this platform - help, guide, teach, encourage, inspire ...
Yes, indeed our cups are running over with gratitude!!
@kismet2018 Thank you for taking the time to read this piece, especially for taking the time from your day and life to leave such an uplifting and encouraging comment :) It is an absolute pleasure to meet you my friend!
We both are very fortunate individuals to have fell into the mercies of such great men on the Steemit platform. Because of our Steemit Angels, we were both able to climb from the dark place that slot of minnows find themselves. Their example of compassion and understanding has led me to want to help build this community to even greater heights. Thankful.....it's a word that doesn't do how I feel justice.
It's awesome to talk to someone else who has experienced this and has felt the gratitude I am feeling today. Being you were in the same spot as I, you know exactly how I felt and you know how great of a feeling it is to have one of these individuals acknowledge the quality of your content. Being able to grow within the community is a ground not many are lucky to break. The only reason I'm here is because of their commitment to the greater good of Steemit. Not to mention, the tips on growing and the encouragement received from these guys is incredible!
I'd like to read your story if you have one available :) @davemccoy is a great man who has helped me tremendously. You are lucky to have such a commited and hard working individual working with you!
Now it's time to continue to grow and to help others on their journey :)
Thank you again for engaging in this post and for reading my material. Please follow me @terminallyill and if you are up for a learning experience, please check out my Beginners Guide to Crypto. Once again, thank you my friend! Looking forward to working with you in the future and seeing your quality content!
@terminallyill, I enjoy the passion that flows under your words! The gratitude I feel for our friends at #newresteemday comes from a less dire place than yours did. The worst feeling I've had thus far on Steemit is of being "morbidly overwhelmed"! Not sure that ever goes away, but it's ok now, because we have "benevolence on steroids" in our new friends!
Despite the depths of your discouragement, I am willing to guess, valuable learning about yourself, people and this system came of it! We know discovering your two angels was one of the life-changing outcomes for you!
Have you ever noticed we always seem to get what we need, when we need it? Doesn't always look like what we THOUGHT we needed, but it is what we need in that moment to take us to the next step! Love when that happens! I call that a "WOW". You can read more about those in my Introduction Blog.
I know so very little compared to how much there is to learn, so I thank you for your offer to learn from your Beginners Guide to Crypto. I need it. I am following you to learn!
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@kismet2018/my-introduce-yourself-post-happy-to-be-in-this-wonderful-place-with-all-of-you
Thank you so much @kismet2018! To be honest, I've felt a variety of feelings due to the Steemit platform. This in itself told me that Steemit was built to be a dominant platform and will be one day. The feeling of being stuck as a minnow, it can be very discouraging. I actually am planning an article just to talk about this feeling, in hopes of turning the perspective of some newer users into something more positive.
You are absolutely right. When you get in times where all you can see is darkness, sometimes it's hard to consider that possibly the answer lies within yourself. I found out the light I thought I needed all of this time, was really just me. I've done alot of soul searching over the past couple of months to be honest and life has changed significantly for me because of it. This slump I had in Steemit had me convinced to give up, until these guys reached out and showed me there is hope in the platform. They showed me that as long as i continue to work hard to produce quality content and endured the struggle, that things do have a good outcome. It may not be when we want it but it will always be when we need it, just as you said!
I'm looking forward to reading your articles! It sounds like you have some very insightful pieces, and I am always up for something built to enrich the mind. I honestly can't wait to read them and get to speak with you more!
I always release crypto related pieces, 90% of which are educational and broken down for the average person to understand. I just did one on one of the companies new in the exchanges, Bluzelle. They have their own token, BLZ. It's an interesting read :) If you have time, please check it out and let me know what you think!
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@terminallyill/crypto-alert-must-read-article-bluzelle-who-are-they-and-what-is-the-blz-token