Why I'm not afraid to be myself and invest in STEEMIT?

 Hello  steemers!!! Thanks for appreciating my last post! Now I am with you and I want to share my thoughts.  

 MY STORY.

 Childhood: 

 As you know I am from Russia. I was born in a poor family. My father worked all his life in the mine underground. Every day he risked his life in order to feed the family. 

 Sometimes the ceiling of the mine had collapsed and rescuers were digging for my father over and over again.  He lived in constant stress. But  he could not change his life.  He didn't have a good education. Besides the economy of the country collapsed. The miners had not received their salaries sometimes more than for eight months.

 That's why he drank a lot. My older brother also started drinking when he began to work on mine. Almost all adult men that I knew were working miners. Our town grew up and lived around the mines and everything connected with them. Minds of the residents of our town were permeated by brutality and hopelessness.

 

 The minds of almost everyone, but not me. 

 In my childhood I experienced a lot of violence and cruelty. The father often came home drunk and let out his tension and aggression. I couldn't resist and so ran away from home. I stayed at friends or in the basement. And one day I decided to break out of this vicious circle.

 School: 

 I studied very well. I finished ninth grade with excellent marks.  I began to engage in melee combat. So, I started to write poetry.  I even won a great children's poetry competition.  But the family didn't have money for a ticket and I could not receive the award. As a teenager, I participated in a competition in martial arts among adults. The enemy broke my hand through a painful admission.  I wore a plaster cast for three months. Then I recovered, continued training and broke my arm again. The doctors forbade me to do sports.

At some point I realized that the school teaches me to be loyal, law-abiding and not to ask too many questions. 

I never learned almost anything that would really help me in life. I realized that just wasting my time. 

 In those days almost all of my peers had used alcohol and drugs.  I feel like a crab in the parable. 

 Here it is:

One man walked along the beach and saw the fisherman. A fisherman was catching crabs. Beside him stood a  barrel  full of crabs. But it has not been covered. 

Then the man said to the fisherman: Why don't you cover the  barrel? Crabs can escape! 

Fisherman answered: No, they will not escape. When one crab tries to climb out the others grab him and haul him back. Envy and stupidity  of crabs  are more reliable than the cap!

In my life, I remembered this parable many times when I saw people like these crabs.

 They forced me to be like them. They aggressively attacked all new and strange. They came together in a pack and were ready to tear to shreds any dissident.  They were united by fear. But in fact, they hated each other. 

 University:

 The last two years in high school, I attended only those classes that I liked.  Of course, at some point, the parents learned about it. There was a scandal, but I continued.  I have read many books and studied many subjects more deeply than classmates. I dreamed that the University finally will change my life. But, unfortunately, it was just a delusion.

 I easily passed the entrance exams. It turned out that most of the items for the first course I have studied. And I got many tests automatically. In addition, I began to observe teachers. I studied their manners and submitting of knowledge and then came to the exam with virtually no preparation. I just reflected on their manner and received excellent marks. Why? I don't know!  The study was too simple and uninteresting.  What happened next can be called "breaking bad".  Amazingly, I feel like I was back in school. The students did not want to learn, but humiliated for the sake of ratings. Teachers did not wanted to teach, but they worked for the money. So I threw a warm place.  I realized my imminent degradation. For a while I was seriously depressed and wanted to commit suicide. Because I no longer saw sense. Then there's unrequited love of course and all that.

The whole story can be told about how I got out of all this shit. And how I entered the theater Institute. And how I lived in a big city without a shelter and money, sleeping  on the street. And how I got into a fight and ended up in the hospital with a broken spine. And how amazing the female psychic cured me absolutely for free. And a lot of things I could tell. But not this time. 

 Theatre Institute: 

These people made me change a lot :

I was finally able to study what i want.  It was a real living process. Specific skills and abilities. No abstract knowledge. A good actor must know a lot in different areas. Ultimately, the main skill of an actor is the ability to learn and to transform.

 A bit of philosophy: 

 A successful actor always has a very good contact with his subconscious. Our subconscious mind is inseparably connected with the whole universe. We can say that the universe is a projection of our subconscious. And Vice versa. I started studying very deeply into my nature. Suddenly,  I began to understand the nature of other people and the world. This amazing research has opened my eyes to the fears that fill every person.

A little reflection on art and creativity :

 The concept of art is connected with the ability to use a certain cultural form.  For example: ballet, break dance or Opera.  But there is art. Is there any difference between them? I believe in it. 

For example: You take paint and paint your feelings. You take the clay and rub it the way you want.  Creativity is always fun. It is always freedom of expression. It is always happiness. 

 The child is still not able to own cultural forms. his work takes the form of throwing things, property damage, etc.  Sometimes the child is blamed for it. He is in pain. His subconscious is blocking this activity.  His inner critic in the future will always tell him:   this is stupid, it's not interesting, some do it much better than you, they won't accept you for who you are.  Amazingly, when I studied biographies of famous people I found that  many of these people are considered underdeveloped in childhood.  These people always maintained close contact with their subconscious.  They drew from the subconscious(i.e. the Universe) their thoughts, images, ideas. 

 And Vice versa.  You can ask for ordinary person write a story or draw a picture.  He will have paralysis of the brain.  This man broke the contact with his subconscious. He does not know, does not feel where is the place that stores images and ideas. He does not know how to dream and listen to yourself. 

MY STEEMSTORY:

 STEEMIT!  I'll be honest, I still don't know what  is it. I learned already a lot of opinions. But I don't want to confuse them with the facts.  I would be grateful to the community. I would be grateful to all of you if you correct any inaccuracies in my conclusions.

 Facts: 

• STEEMIT bakes a big pie and creates value. What is this value? We. We invest our time and money. The more we invest, the more pie.
• STEEMIT does not have a referral system, and therefore can not be a pyramid scheme. 
•  Expansion of STEEMIT social network fulfils the function of advertising. It popularise underlying cryptocurrency. 
•  Thanks to the blockchain STEEMIT  may function as a notary confirm authorship of the content.
•  Thanks to the voting system STEEMIT can be used as the most advanced at this moment, the system of crowdfunding. 
Thanks to stimulation of the reward STEEMIT encourages people to be creative and self-determination.
•  Through decentralization, STEEMIT can not be located in any particular jurisdiction. The content can not be subjected to political or any other censorship 
•    Although at the moment, the project increases its capitalization through private investment. 
•  STEEMIT  does not use advertising as a source of income. 

 Of course, I have listed not all.  On this subject has written many great posts and I recommend that everyone carefully tried to understand these topics. 

For example: https://steemit.com/steemit/@wingz/instead-of-asking-where-the-money-comes-from-ask-why-it-s-even-there-in-the-first-place-digging-deeper-into-the-steem-economic

 Personally, I decided to invest in  STEEMIT. And already done it.( Everyone can see the history of my wallet. )

I invest my time and money. Why? Because I believe in the idea of a decentralized cryptocurrency. And I believe in STEEMIT.  I also predict a rapid growth of the network and capitalization of the project.  

Many people like crabs in the parable, afraid of everything new and find millions of evidence for their fears. But I guess you already understood that I do not care for crabs. 

 In addition, I want to share my thoughts and get support from people who see the world the same way. I want to get support from уou STEEMERS.

 Thank you for reading to the end. I embrace you all.

Your Aleksey.