After months of collaborating on Steem, @yabapmatt and I enjoyed meeting for the first time yesterday downtown in Saint Petersburg, Florida (USA)! We took this quick photo together (technically Matt's wife took it) after a lovely dinner at the Sundial with our families!
We got dinner at Locale Market as seen at https://localegourmetmarket.com/ which made eating with our two children easier because each was able to run around outside. I spent about half the time with my daughter Madeleine riding up and down the escalators while Matt and I enjoyed a few minutes to talk about life and Steem together.
What surprised me was the amazing timing for this! Matt was not planning in advance to be near me and ended up messaging me on discord from https://jerrybanfield.com/contact/ the night before he might be in town. I did not even see his message until the next day and managed to meet him within a few hours of seeing it! The main casualty was @laurabanfield's yoga session which she opted to skip to help with entertaining our daughter because without her we would have spent 100% of the time riding an escalator up and down! As is, we rode is so many times the security guard asked us to stop.
I thought to share this because it helps us a lot to make deeper relationships with each other when we meet up in person! Steem has been more effective than anything else I have used online for building new relationships and I am grateful for the chance to meet @yabapmatt in person after months of working together on Steem starting with his Steem bot tracker at https://steembottracker.com/.
@yabapmatt is one of the witnesses I am voting for at https://steemit.com/~witnesses. Matt is a full time working father interested in doing Steem full time someday. Will we help him and thousands more of us make the leap to Steem full time because I like this most days better than a "real job?"
Love,
Jerry Banfield
Well done ..
Good for you, thanks for sharing your experience with us
Great post
Hello Jerry!
I have been a fan of yours since the first day i saw one of your videos on youtube. I myself joined steemit already back in 2016,but found you only about 3 months ago.
What you do to help Steemit is incredible,hope to meet you one day!
Thank you @edgarsart for building our community here for us before I arrived and for finding me here after following on YouTube! I hope we will have a chance to meet in person too! Will you remind me of this post because it will help me remember?
That would awesome! Sure:)
Maybe i could draw a portrait of you,how you like this idea?
First time I know there’s another Petersburg in Florida , USA ( other than the city in Russia) 😀😆😍
Thanks for the info.. and Enjoy your stay 😍@jerrybanfield
@josteem
Yeah, and it has palm trees and warm weather too ... mostly unlike the other Saint Petersburg
Yeah .. difinately opposit lol
thats great :)
As said by someone “People change,things change,time changes, priorities change,but expectations always remain the same” .
Nothing is permanent in life-not even the company of your loved ones. We need to understand the fact that every person we meet is there to accompany us in a particular phase of life. It is very rear that friends we make in childhood have same goals, same thoughts like us. So it is obvious that they will be on different path from us. *So as the time changes paths change because goals change. Now since they are on a different path with different goals so it is obvious that they will meet new people- “People with common path and common goal”. So now priorities change. But one thing that didn’t changed over the time was our expectation. Expectations always remain the same. Despite of this great change- “Change in time” we still expect that person to behave same as he used to behave years ago. Instead of changing our expectations we change our perception that person has changed. But they have not.
So, they have not forgotten you but their current priorities regarding their life goal might have changed. They are now more in touch with new people on same journey than you. Try to remain in touch of your friends but remember one thing “Good friends always occupy a special place in heart even if you are out of touch for years.”
Happy Reading :)
More than wonderful !
have you @shihabieee composed these lines yourself of it is borrowed from another. I am asking because I wanna ask your permossion to copy these words and use them whenever it is needed , can I?
Why not....
Thanks 🙏🏼
That is definitely very cool-- and one of the great things about Steemit. It was also one of the things that drew me here in the first place: The dept of connections here seemed so much deeper and more authentic than I had experienced on other social media platforms. Whether that's because it requires a certain mindset to really grasp what's going on here I don't know... but I am very grateful for it, and it's what keeps me plugging along still, after some 14 months here.
Realized it's been a while since I last checked my witness votes... and having watched both of you work in the community for a while, votes no. 28 and 29 just went to @jerrybanfield and @yabatmatt.
@denmarkguy
You are definitely right.. depth of connection here is amazing.. I really have the family-like feeling here .. my steem family 😍❤️
@josteem
Hello @denmarkguy
You had just hit the point...
Yes I totally agree with you. You are so very right. No social media platform has enabled people to built real deep and sincere connections than steemit. This is the truth that's so real so practicable.
@eurogee, the founder of @euronation community & The Host, Show Us Your Witnesses Weekly Contest
Thank you very much for adding us to your witness votes and building the community for us here before either of us arrived!
Sorry for interrupting ..please do me a favor
My sbd got stolen by https://steemit.com/@good-kama
I post about this theft just few minute ago.. since you have a great follower . So it wil help to warned everyone..
Here is my post regarding thief. I dont need upvote . Please resteemed this. For every account safety
https://steemit.com/money/@james-09aka/theft-on-steemit-steemit-is-not-safe-it-is-not-a-joke
Done ✅
Yes we will help him.... it's always nice when two steemians meet up to talk about life and the progress of steemit as a whole ... I believe building relationships shouldn't only be on discord or steemit.chat , we can build relationships with one another with meetings etc .... it's even better when 2 whales meet up , that way we know something good is definitely coming out of that ...
Me too ... I am in 👍🏼
It’s sad I couldn’t get to see the little girl’s face. Looks like y’all had a good time
The scenery is beautiful but the little girl seems to be having much more fun, lol!
Yes I try to keep up with her in fun!
A very valuable meeting. When the kings of Steemit meet the meal will produce a great decision.
I am very inspired brother @jerrybanfield
It's always a good time to meet a another steemian in REAL LIFE!
Hello jerrybanfield can I help me because I am a person hard to the poor and desperately needs the attention of the abg in the esteem of this
very nice
Your post isGolden I just follow your post so kindly follow my post and about me also nice post thanks for sharing
excellent appreciation
Steemit is really helping to grow relationships with people you don't even know you will ever meet. It's really nice seeing you two snap picture together. Nice picture
It's great to meet @yabapmatt . Can remind the life story with him. Especially something memorable in life. It is a journey of life that we can not expect. Someone will change over time. Gratitude if he can change for the better. It becomes a very exciting dinner while reminding each other of the past that has become a beautiful memory. I also really like to taste the beef soup. Thanks for sharing @jerrybanfield
i feel happy for you because i think you enjoy this time so much....and pictures are so nice thanks for sharing
You having some good time @Jerrybanfield
Keep doing it!
what a cool~ making deeper relationship is really important in the world !
I think you enjoyed that day... Nice friendship...
Awwwwwn....this is lovely, thats how much i always want to meet lovely people on steemit physically it has a way of bounding us for more intimacy, i will even meet you @jerrybanfield soon....cheers
@jerrybanfield This is great! Steemit allows many to connect. Best wishes to you always. - @splendorhub
Thank you @splendorhub!
hello is very fun with your photos and stories. please do not take it
Nice bonding it looks like you know each other for a very long time, jerry your such a nice and cool guy.
Nice photography with @yabapmatt. Thank you @jerrybanfield to share your moment with us.
Sorry @jerrybanfield for interrupting
Fantastic park. Hope someday can be there. 😊
Have a great time jerry!! :-)
thank you boss good a post is Gold I just follow your post so kindly follow my post and about me also nice post thanks for sharing.
Woww very2 good..
Both of you are amazing on making Steem to to shine on the social.
First Jerry that is the first person who tough me how to use steemit and giving an idea what steem is all about.
@yabapmatt is just another guys coming in to my mine to see how to make steem more powerful and see more idea that could be connected to steem.
Happy to see you guys spent sometime together.
Wow,thats so nice,fine photos ,it's good to have fun with friends,I believe you have a great time,nice one.
Great relationship,,, its a great sample,,, must be imitated,,, im so proud of yours,,, im never see like this before,,, i hope,, i can joined with yours,,, someday,,, :)
Its very best experience,,, thanks for sharing this my friends,,, yours make the people in steemit feel the great relationship,,,
This is an irreplaceable moment , there has some moment that we missed every moment ..we naver forgot it.This is the human life.Thank you for such a blog
This is great enjoy your day love you guys
I like pist @jerrybanfield
Unexpected meetings sometimes make us more exciting and surprising. Of course this is a good movement because both meetings started from steemit. Unknowingly, steemit has shaped our goodness and openness to new things.
This ultimately also makes steemit an infinite space and time. we've met at a meetups a while ago. although the meeting was a big plan, but what I found in it was a miracle!
I met with @alaikaabdullah at that time. while all this time I followed the writing on his blog. But met during the steemit event. ahahahhaha. amazing!
Steemit meetups Cimahi, Bandung, Indonesia!
Thank you for sharing your meeting’s phot here with us!
This is wholeheartedly healthier than a existent job. My sincere piece of work asks me to delay until 1am 5 nights a week. It is hence coarse on my in extra conduct than one. I cannot remain to be a bursting time Steemer.
Also. express thanks you subsequently much @yabapmatt! SteemBotTracker has permitted me to force to 90% of my bids profitable since judgment out about it a month ago.
Hahaha! I love it when i find posts about fellow steemians meeting,
Kids sure love riding things that go up and down. I was downtown at city hall yesterday and my grandson insisted we take a elevator ride, he'd grab hold of the bar in the elevator and spread his legs apart in what appeared to me a ok I'm braced now let's roll position...lol, he's four, it was so funny. I know one had to be there but when you said the security guard said to stop it reminded me of saying to him if we keep going up and down they'll send the security guard to see what we are up to.
Lol the picture came through the words to me :)
Seems to be fun to meet a fellow steemonian 😀
Btw, this post is part of my investigation about curation rewards. I hope you like it? 😀
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Hello sir. It's nice to meet you.
My name is Barbara.
Lovely username you have there.
very interesting meeting, and also a bit funny.
you two are almost like brothers.
I like it.
Postingan yang bagus..
Saya suka post anda..
It's good to get out and have fun.
you are good 👍🏻👌🏼