Steemit Ultimate Challenge 8 Weeks - Week #7- Finding Me

Steemit Ultimate Challenge. From the title itself, you can sense the sincerity of the contest and the tight competition it brings to fellow steemians. I love contests. I love writing. So who's fully interested? Meeeeee. (Yes, I need to include a picture of me bwahahaha)

First, thank you so much @dobartim for this wonderful game. To anyone who's interested, you can see the guidelines here.

So here's my story.

You can call me Grey. A twenty-three-year-old bachelor with a chronic kidney disease. In other words, I have a kidney failure. But I refuse to die. I want to enjoy life. I have lots of things to do. I have my future planned. If only universe didn't give me this challenge. But I'm okay with it. I truly believe that God does not give you a problem that you cannot survive. I know that this is His plan to make me stronger, bolder, and wiser. The photo below is a proof that I'm trying to be tough. One of my coping mechanism is telling jokes. Trying to be funny. So stress will get tired bothering me.

My nephrologist told me that I am going to undergo dialysis twice a week, every week, for life. Or until I choose kidney transplant. Or death takes me. I don't want to die. So I chose kidney transplant. But we have no money. Yet. I already have a donor. But no money yet. But we don't surrender without a fight. My family and I are brainstorming of fund-raising activities that we can do. I have to wait. And endure the pain I feel every time needles stick their way through my skin. During dialysis sessions. I am very patient. Patient like a noun. And patient like the adjective. Also, the one holding the monopod in the picture below is my donor. He is my brother. One of the kindest and the best. I didn't even ask for his kidney. He voluntered to donate. Such a nice guy. God bless him.

So I'm here. Hoping I can earn something. Though I don't depend too much on steemit. Because success does not come immediately to someone. But that is one purpose of steemit to me. Financial communication.

On the other hand, I love writing. I have been wanting to start a blog since after college. And steemit has been the perfect platform for it. Though I am not that active yet here. Because lots of things are going on in my life. Aside from 4hour dialysis every session, I am also working as a technical staff in a company. I am also preparing the requirements for my planned transplant this year. And (I hope my girlfriend doesn't read this) having a girlfriend can be handy too hahahaha. With the mood swings and all. But I love her. She, my family, and my co-workers make my sick life more adaptable. I am so blessed. Really.

Going back, steemit has been a nice medium for me. I can post my poems here. And the short stories my imagination has made. Sometimes, I also post photos I have captured. Photos that talk to me in a deep level. Photos that kind of described some aspect of me. There are also contests here that just make my inner self ecstatic. To tell you the truth, I often talk to myself. I make conversations and dialogues with the me, myself, and I as the characters. I make stories about anything. And people think I'm crazy. That's why I write. I believe that I have a very active imagination. I'm not crazy. My mind is just overflowing with ideas and imagination. For a story. For a creative writing. Sometimes my stories are aligned with my ideals. Sometimes they don't. I may be a writer by heart. And I think that's beautiful. Moreover, steemit has been a nice tool when I was trying to survive depression. Depression caused by my disease. Life communications.

You can visit my blog and take a look at my poems and creative write-ups.

As I have mentioned, I work as a technical staff. It means that I have to travel. To the municipalities where our beneficiaries live. This is what we call the field work. During those travels, I feel much connected to God. The new places I visit destress me from the daily stressors in life. And I share that to the steemit world. I have lots of things to share. And I need to write posts about them as soon as possible because my phone is overflowing with pictures that I'll use for the posts. One of the latest activity in our company that destressed me was when we planted mangroves. It was so awesome.

Business formally, I don't have that. Well, a part of my fund-raising activity is selling stuff like tshirts. I might use steemit for that. See? Steemit has given me another idea for my fund-raising activity. That is why I love steemit. Business communication in the future.

Steemit is not just a social media. It is not just a web. You tend to learn new stuff everyday. Things happening in the world. Heck! Someone here gave me an idea of gardening somewhere with scarse amount of soil. That's called hydroponics gardening. Learning steemit is also a type of education. You learn day by day. You also earn. You study and earn. You study outside a classroom. That's what life is supposed to be. Learning. And we don't stop learning. Education communication at its best.

That's how steemit changed me. Is changing and will be changing me. Change for the better. I hope people realize how blessed and lucky they are. One strategy would be to count your blessings every day. And you'll be surprised to know that God still loves you. Think about the other people. Let's stop being selfish. Just like what the poem Desiderata says, "Do not compare yourself to others. You may become vain or bitter. For always, there's a better or lesser person than yourself"