My Steemit Crush is the Owner of the First Steemit Profile I Saw

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Firstly, I want to thank @ramengirl for this #steemitcrush contest and congratulations to her on the 3000 followers and level 71 milestone. I think it is a great idea and a wonderful opportunity to let your #steemitcrush know that you admire them for the things they do here in Steemit and in life in general. I like how @ramengirl conceptualized what a #steemitcrush is, that it would be someone you want to meet in person. Even cooler that you can express your admiration in whatever media you are comfortable, be it a written narrative, a poem, a song, videos or any artistic form. If you haven't seen the original post of @ramengirl, please check this link, Steemit Crush. Feel free to join the contest because it's worth the effort to win the prize or just to show the world and the person you admire that he/she inspires you in this platform.

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My Steemit crush is the owner of the very first Steemit page I saw, @cryptopie. If you don't know @cryptopie, please care to check him out. He is one of the champion warriors out here in Steemit. Some of you prolly have read how I got to know Steemit in my previous posts. I was in a hostel and there was a storm outside and I met @meetmysuperego and we talked about life. Upon knowing that I am a dialysis patient she excitedly told me about Steemit and it was an alien concept to me. She kept on telling me that if the internet gets back to normal and power is fixed after the storm, I should search Steemit and check @cryptopie's profile. I was so curious who is cryptopie, I thought he was some foreigner blogger of some sort. @meetmysuperego talked about all these nice things Steemit, but I didn't have any idea at all because we weren't seeing any page, we were just talking about it in person with no computer or even a smartphone. The name @cryptopie was inked in my brain, good thing it was easy to recall.

I wasn't able to check Steemit right away because I had a lot of things going on after that storm. It took 3 days before I searched "Steemit cryptopie" in Google and I saw his page, it looked like an online diary. I read the latest post and it was about the difficulties of someone on dialysis. I kept scrolling down and down and reading all the recent posts and some of them I can relate, but some of them I guess I'll experience in the future if I stay on dialysis. It invoked a gamut of emotions in me. Pain, fear, strength, faith, hope, empathy, sympathy, it shooked my entirety to the core. I saw his posts earn some dollars but more than that, I saw a lot more positive things in his posts like passion and consistency. It looked like it was something he liked doing and something he lived to do for others to be aware of his situation. It's like a purpose, to live and inspire others. In every post I read the humility, his humor, his strength, his love for the people that matters around him. His dedication to Steemit and his being grateful that he became part of it in this lifetime was evident. I saw his online diary as an honest account of a person with kidney failure. He spoke his mind about being sick, his challenges, how he comforts himself, what he wants, what he needs. He helps his family and the drive to earn for them is there. Despite being sick, he wants to be there for them and help and make things happen. On the other hand, his fellow Steemians wrote well wishes and were all nice. There were encouraging and motivating comments on each and every post. People from all over the world tries to comfort him. I had this perfect good impression of the things I was seeing in his page. All the good things @meetmysuperego was telling me about Steemit then had a picture and I realized, this is something real. Clearly, Steemit is one of the reason why this man is so empowered to rise against all odds and keep doing what he loves doing, blogging his mind and spirit.

I got so endulged in reading his blogs and I got to the part where he mentions he has been on dialysis for 14 years. That made me curious about him even more. Here in my Region in Leyte, in the Visayas, I only know someone who is on his 6th year on dialysis, that's the longest. In the US, I have read a lot of survivors for 40-50 years but there was transplant and different types of dialysis in between. It is kind of comforting to know that we last 14 years like @cryptopie here in the Philippines. There are a lot of factors why our lifespan is short here, we do not have fundings from the government and there are few dialysis centers. There is not much competition so their prices skyrockets and people skip sessions because they cannot afford it. In Manila, however, there is the congress and the senate and other agencies that have medical assistance so their patients there last for quite a bit.

I want to see @cryptopie in person, because I want to know him better, I want to know if he has some tricks to share to me how to last in dialysis. I want to tell him I admire his courage and dedication to his family. I want to tell him how smart he is to be his own hero and to have that humility to speak to others about his challenges and his struggles. I want to be his friend and see what we can work out. I am an admin of a support group for dialysis patients all over the Philippines called, Dialysis Support Group, Philippines. It is just a facebook group for now, not yet a foundation but we have become 6000 members strong this year and we're holding events and meetups in Manila and everywhere around the country. We might want to pay him a visit to have that boost of inspiration. I hope that happens one day soon.

I just read @cryptopie's post earlier and I read he wants to have a better wheelchair. I hope he gets it for him to be more mobile. I'm pretty sure this man can do more for others if only he could. I have been thinking about buying an automated wheelchair, too and I saw Alibaba has cool ones, I might suggest it to him. I want to see him soon, I'm excited. He is the Steemian that I want to see first because we are both in the Philippines. I'm pretty sure, we won't have dull moments together when we talk since we basically have the same world. I can pretty much interact with anyone but it's really a lot different when you talk to someone who knows exactly what you are going through.

To @cryptopie, man, stay tough. I dub thee my Steemit crush because you got me to stay here and get smitten with the platform. I always appreciate it when you drop me comments and encourage me to believe in Steemit. You are one of the many proofs that the platform is awesome! Fight strong and never ever give up because you are someone's inspiration. I look up to you in life and in Steemit. I'm looking forward to seeing you soon,* Mabuhay! (long live) I'll pray for miracles for you and me.

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