Why I love steemit

Why I love steemit

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_{This is not the thousandandfirst posting about the enormous potential of steemit. And this is not going to be a how-to-be-successful guide for this wonderful invention. Most of us know the opportunities of this unique social ecosystem. But tonight I got something like a little "enlightenment" and I just wanna share some thoughts with you.}

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After a hard working day at the university I came home and felt a bit empty. Actually I was too tired to cook for dinner and my head was full of stuff that needs to be done until yesterday... you (probably) know what I mean. Good time to go directly to bed. But there are days like this, that shouldn't end just like an exhausted hamster falling down after 1 million rounds in the running wheel. My brain needed some distraction, but not that sort of what's on tv. Maybe I needed some "soul food"...

_{Barefoot in nature, collecting delicate beauties.
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So, I came to steemit tonight and looked what’s new on my home-page. And I discovered for myself: beside providing own content, I am enjoying my time on this website more than on any other website. I am surfing here, clicking through the postings of others and spend my time selecting topics that attracts my attention. I didn’t even know that I am such a “consumer” of good photography for example. Steemit shows me amazing people and their crazy talents. I just have to click on a #-tag and a new microcosmos is unfolding in front of me.

On Steemit I can switch to “observer mode”. I can post, upvote, resteem, follow - or not. There are no “recommandations” who should be in my friendslist, because I allowed somebody in one of those 1000 terms & conditions to search my private adressbook. Steemit is discrete. It is offering me nothing but pure content. It is silent and not intrusive. Full freedom is correlating here with full self-responsability. What’s the difference to FB? FB is the observer! FB is…nah, let’s forget this.

Yes, there is good and bad content here. But what I find boring is maybe funny as hell for someone else. I have always the decision: I can follow and unfollow without stress. I can waste my votingpower on flagging useless postings or spend it wisely on people's content that deserve it. And when my votingpower goes down, this intelligent system “forces” me to stop just clicking and start engaging more by writing comments. When I can’t vote any longer and I have the urge to show my appreciation, I have to say “thank you”. Isn’t that genius? ;)

I admit: I was wrong

Recently I wrote a critical post about the reward system of steemit. This was in the beginning of my experience here. I was still influenced by the common known difficulties of earning money for something. Steemit isn't about money - at least not for me. I just don't even know if I will ever be able to buy a sandwich from my exchanged SBD ...xD. But this isn't also about altruism. Such thinking I would call naive. I am absolutely honest about my feelings, when I receive 0,001 $ - I am feeling like in an amusement park. Hey, LEVEL UP! ;) Steemit feels like gaming and I am aware of that. But the difference is: I don't waste my time in virtual fights (although this can be entertaining sometimes too ;) ).

The highest value

The highest value of steemit is: spending part of your lifetime with great satisfaction. It's not like on FB where the content is filtered by my google searches that I did 10 minutes before, because FB "thinks" I am not intelligent enough and need some help. I am completely independent here.
On steemit I get a different perception of the value of money. Earning money is nothing to be ashamed of or to be greedy about. It's life energy exchanged by people and made visible in form of numbers.

Life is short. It can be over in a second. "Time is money" they say. No, time is more than just that. It is even more than the highest rated cryptocurrency in the world. Time is incorruptable. The clock is ticking merciless for everybody in the world – no matter how rich or poor.
So I should stay wise and give away this most precious "currency" to people and things that I love, that keep me growing and that push me forward.

_{"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry" (by unknown)
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In the end: what is it all about?

This moment bears the perfect chance to recall our innocent desire for positive vibes. Thank you steemians. For your creativity, for your courage to try something new instead of bashing the old system. Steemit is a model for the future, a blueprint for countless new ideas to come based on blockchain technology.

Steemit may have a UI design of what we remember some years ago. But it provides a ready-to-use environment for us which we can finish in the "do-it-yourself" style. Its just like a house without any furniture. I decide how I decorate, how I wanna build it up, in which direction I open my windows. I won't complain about "user experience" with that funny markup editor. I would even write in plaintext without any markup, just to pour my thoughts into this world. You read it now. Congratulations. And thank you for your emotional engangement. When you read until here, you proved to be a deeply sensitive human being. But my feeling of thankfulness is stored forever in the blockchain now - no matter what.

--- **Thank you :) ** ---