This is a little response to marky's initiative "Why am I here?"
I joined Steem back in September 2017 and it was my first real interaction with a blockchain. At that time Bitcoin was constantly rising to newer highs which just seemed impossible by any standards. Naturally, this peaked my interest in cryptos. What are they? What is a blockchain? How did it work? Is this all just hype? Asking these questions of course is just the beginning and as many of you know this is a road down the crypto rabbit hole which entails a steep learning curve and an attempt to figure "everything" out and make sense of this new world.
One of my first posts on this blockchain was a traveling blog post which surprise, surprise, didn't receive any attention. I was stumped; nobody really took interest and of course the payout was 0. This was especially frustrating since there were many posts that just posted a picture and a couple of words and got a huge payout (little did I know about votebots etc. back then...) But I didn't give up and tried to find my way by experimenting with different kinds of posts (writing, art, photography, crpytos etc.).
However, as I discovered like others before me, it wasn't necessarily the payouts that kept me going, but rather the experience of overcoming challenges and reinventing oneself. I tried to make a post every other day and I naturally wondered what I should blog about. Who was my audience? What was it that I was trying to say? And why? These kinds of questions challenged me to produce new content and kept the creative juices flowing. I liked to write and this was an opportunity to challenge myself to improve my skills. While the financial success was minimal, I really liked to come up with new post ideas and I also started to get more involved with the community, which I learned was perhaps the most important part of being here, especially once we got communities/tribes on the chain (with leofinance, photography, and of course LTC being one of my favorites).
I have noticed that all of this time spent here has been a journey of discovery and learning and while there were many times I wanted to give up it was in hindsight one of the best things I could have done in my free time. Often I went outside to take pictures of people and things and I thought about what story I could tell with them. I think that I also improved my writing skills by maintaining a blog and finally I came up with the idea of the "Love the Clouds" contest which has been the biggest success in terms of community engagement. I really love how so many of you are sharing this love for the clouds and nature and that we can share it here!
I hope that Hive will continue to develop and attract many more users as I think there is so much potential here. Especially in terms of how the internet is heading down a path of centralization and censorship. We have a real opportunity here to change things!

Check out the Love The Clouds Community if you share the love for clouds!

Nice to see you here. Wish you were my neighbor!! LoL
haha, yeah would be nice! Especially because I get to live in Thailand right? :)
Let me know when you have migrated!! LoL
Everyday is a journey, we walk, we stumble and fall... we are becoming a better version of ourselves!