THANK YOU FOR 100 FOLLOWERS!
I would like to start out by stating how grateful I am to this community as a whole. Since day one I was welcomed with open arms and really made to feel at home. I am particularly happy about the overwhelming positivity in this community and how all the comments I received were productive and helpful. During my short time here, I have met many new people and have enjoyed reading other peoples posts just as much as I enjoyed creating my own. As somebody who came to this platform with a failed background in blogging, I was not expecting much, but seeing the number of followers rise to 100 and realising that people actually enjoyed reading what I write, has immensely boosted my confidence both in my writing and in Steemit as a whole.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
It's time to mention a few people in who have really helped make me feel appreciated and fueled my initial confidence and growth. I am especially grateful for the support you showed me, the wonderful conversations we had and the fact that you allowed me to enjoy Steemit from the moment I joined. So in no particular order:
@pandamama: From the day I introduced myself you made me feel welcome and you have consistently shown your support. By pushing me to explore new areas of Steemit you have helped me take a leap or two and discover new and wonderful things.
@mk40 from the @OCD project: I would never have dreamed of being nominated for my first real post. The overwhelming support I received for that post alone has fueled my confidence in this platform and my writing. The work you are doing is truly inspirational and I believe you are making great strides in helping everyone realise their full potential on this platform.
@deterrencepolicy: Our endless conversations across time zones and from one end of the world to another gave me great joy. Who would have thought a simple comment would turn into a multi page conversation? Thank you for keeping me awake while I waited for a message from Australia and allowing our endless discussions to grow into such a fruitful exchange. I hope we will have many more of them and look forward to seeing how your blog develops.
@mountainwashere: As you know, I regularly enjoyed seeing your book reviews pop up on my feed. From the beginning, you have shown me how Steemit is not just a platform for creating your own content but also for consuming other peoples content and how that can be thoroughly enjoyable on a day to day basis. I hope I will get back to my daily rythm soon and you will still be pumping out book reviews for me to read.
@racing-richard and @patze: Thank you for putting up with my endless chatter about how great Steemit is and finally joining me on this platform. It's been great to see you here and it has been such a pleasure seeing you enjoy yourselves as much as I have.
I'm still here
Finally, I would like to take a moment to apologise to my followers for last weeks inactivity. Sadly, I have been bogged down with a huge amount of work, as I am currently in the middle of my exams and slightly underestimated the amount of time Steemit takes out of my day. I set high standards when it comes to my posts and I try to provide good quality whilst answering all your comments. Simply writing my "Heroes of Photography Weekly" takes about 3-4 hours of research, writing and proofreading before I feel comfortable releasing it. Having committed myself to this platform, I do feel a responsibility to regularly provide good content so I can be a contributing factor to the growth of what I believe is a revolutionary step in social media interaction. So rest assured I will be back to full strength when my exams end in 2 weeks. Until then I am doing my best to stay active.
ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU!
I look forward to seeing you soon and for your patience, I will reward you with a little fun fact about myself: Up until half a year ago I was rocking some pretty badass dreads but got tired of them after 7,5 years so I chopped them off. Let me know what you think in the comments:
I am missing this pretty badass dreads! But you also rock the short hair cut style ;)
just found you due to Pandamama as I saw her blog after someone else commented and so on....you commented on the nature video from Cyprus about 29 days ago....you mentioned your mom....i will head there next..I am down to 70 % have curated a ton today but I hope to will come back and give love later. following you now...i love vinyl.....just bought a new record player. When we expat out soon i am going to have to get my daughter (probably about your age) keep all of my treasures for a bit. Love and Peace, Melissa. Can not wait until you write more have to check out the one mentioned above. p.s s my son just cut his dreads and my daughter in law "is working on removing" hers. They are cute....like your mom ...i keep saying get on steemit you have so much to offer.
Hi @joearnold,
Thanks for your comment. I have been badgering everyone I know to get on here and more and more people have created accounts as a result.
As I pointed out in this post I have been overjoyed with the positive response this community has delivered and love meeting new people. It's great to hear you're into vinyl. It's a real joy and I regularly get new records. In a few years, some of those gems could be really hard to get and right now they are just sitting around in old boxes on flea markets. Where will you be moving from/to? It's a big step moving your life around. I've done it a couple times and, back and forth between South Africa and Germany and it's always a big mission and adventure.
The dreads are a matter to themselves. My girlfriend is muttering curses under her breath because I removed them, but I had been growing them out for half a year. There just came a point when they were a total nuisance. Nonetheless, I would have them all over again if I had to relive my life. I always said while I'm young people will forgive me for experimenting. In later life, crazy hair styles just get harder and harder to justify.
I've followed you back and look forward to seeing what you post. I'll be back to full form again in about 2 weeks. Got to get cracking on my exams until then (having your mother on Steemit also means she can monitor how much work you are putting into Steemit vs Uni).
Fantastic news @gentbynature I've loved our never-ending conversations about photography (actually I only recently realised how long and involved they were!). I need to get on here more and most of the time I don't receive notifications about new posts. Nevermind we have to make do with experimental software.
Cheers, here's to the future!
Hope to see you posting again soon, it's been a little bit!
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