This morning I woke up to find that I have finally arrived at 2000 HP. I am happy about this despite the time it took for me to arrive here.
I started this journey in late 2017,that is three years of creating content for this my small corner of the crypto verse. I have had reasons to stop posting several times during this period. I have had reasons to stop interacting in the same time. I have even lost some friends, either by misdeed or by distance and it has been painful but I am still here.
I am forever thankful to persons like @tarazkp who has remained steadfast and true even though we are barely in contact these days. I will remedy my ways. I will not forget friends like @tezmel, @trucklife-family and @owasco who have been kind, showing up to share in the wonder of my content time and time again. Projects like @inkwell which has grown bigger in my absence has been kind, @freewriters, always open. @ocd and @curie, Pal and projects long gone have supported me in so many wonderful ways. All of you have made this 2000 HP possible.
While Hive may not be making me a millionaire now, it has helped me develop far beyond my expectations as a writer. Most of my experiments and styles are first tested here before taken to the outside world and I have been lucky to have gotten positive feedback which reflected in the upvotes. If not for Hive, I would have abandoned writing in 2017. I'd be someone else by now.
2000 HP is not much in the grand scheme but it is a lot. It is legit work, creating content as time would allow, and making it of the best quality. It is hoped that this journey will culminate with a wallet that is worth loads in any currency one day. Until then, I must bask in the joy of this day. It will be a while before another thousand will show up, or not. Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
I am trying to improve my time spent here. It is not easy. The real life is filled with too many stuff going on at the same time. I need to make money so I can do some needful things like getting a home this year, so I am pursuing every angle. The year is just starting. I just might hack it this time.
I have been advised to be more positive in my expectations. It is not easy for someone like me to start expecting good to happen to me but I will try for hope. It is not a bad thing to hope. This is a new year and if at the end of the year, I have 10,000 HP that is not a bad thing, is it?
So I must go back to the real life, battle my finances, my relationships, my mental health, my dreams and I hope to come out on top. Once again, thank you hive community for putting food on my table at the darkest time. I am grateful.
Yours always,
Osahon (warpedpoetic)
Glad you made it this far! You are a bit elusive at times (I know we can’t all be on hive all the time) but someone I very much enjoy bumping into! Hope you can keep it going a long time. I’ll continue to pop in and see what you are doing
real life makes it difficult to be here fully. I am trying to stick to just posting for the time being. When i find a little balance, i will become active again on discord. Thanks for all the support. i am always grateful.
just do what you gotta, i know how it is
Yeah. Thanks🤗
Very nice essay! Put a big fat smile on my face. I love your work.
Dig this line, among others:
I've had the opposite experience on Hive. I started writing fiction (poetry I had dabbled in previously) when I found the @freewriters and I AM someone else!
Good luck in your endeavors, all of them. You've got this.
Oh that's interesting. I think what this platform does is give one space to try out new things and see how it turns out.
I actually wrote my first true fiction here. I had just left a blog I was creating content for then. I was distraught. If I had not found a place like this, I would not have had reasons to write for so long before I started getting more of my works into journals.
Aaah! What an effort Mwalim. It has always been my pleasure to be a part of your mind travels. They have a way of dragging a drooling mwanafunzi into the possibilities out there.
To much more love and support as you deserve everything good 💙
drooling? 😍 thank you @tezmel. thank you
There will be new opportunities that require less time committment such as the new microblogging platform coming soon from leofinance. I'm looking forward to that.
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Yeah that will be amazing. Hive is going places with all of these ecosystems being built off the chain.
You were very persistent. Congratulations!
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thank you very much. I have often stepped away from here but i always return.