Unfortunately, when you get someone used to being treated well, after a while they start to believe that things will always be that way. Often, the quality of their work starts to decline too, because they feel like they deserve the reward... simply because they've always received it before.
I personally try to maintain a certain level of quality in my posts and not fall below it. I try to respect the platform and the people who take the time to vote for me. Even though most of them are regular users rather than big curators, I appreciate every single vote I receive.
It's good to see you're alive and well! I hope you manage to sort out your move soon and get back to a normal, comfortable life.
And as for the walks... You once said yourself that you missed them, so now you have a chance to enjoy them a little! :)
You offer more than just posts Sir!
Not that it is essential to do more than post here, that is what most are able to offer, but you are a builder, a creator, a community-member with a bigger vision and a genuine intent to embrace and strengthen community.
You are right though, entitlement breeds complacency, which in turn breeds lack of effort, which breeds a tide that becomes lower for all... People who do not take the narrative forward, think a level or 2 deeper, stretch themselves to something new.
I see that happening enough in wider-society, I would like to think this place to be a little haven from all that, one little section of the internet, the blockchain, that acts different, holds true to it's integrity.
It does not take everyone for this, just enough of a core who have 'true-community' at heart in all they do.
People often ask about my comments, one guy used to tell me that I could write 100 in the same amount of time that I write 3, he said this would grow my acount so much faster as most would throw me a bone with an upvote... He maybe right but;
🤣 He did not know, nor understand - why I am here.
I still have 2 'old dude' typing fingers, but often am smiling to myself as they strike the keys of my poor, over-worked keyboard.
Sometimes it has taken me an hour to respond to somebody going through something real in their life. I would not trade that! It is the heart of my time here. Sometimes people feel so heard, so understood from this, who knows, maybe they see 'real life change' from thrashing it out on the page here? I'd like to think so.
My lady and I have never had money, not more than covers basic life anyway, Here, as in life, there have been occasions that have shown themselves that offered some 'real-money' all it would have taken was me to 'tow the line' and agree with people I knew to be wrong, sell a little bit of myself to the highest bidder.
Haha, not me!
That doesn't make me better, isn't something I want praise for, that is the right way to live life. Even if the good things of life remain out of reach for a bit longer. (I would argue that many of us already have the good things, regardless of money, if we just open our bloody eyes!)