RE: Life and Death in a Lyft drive
@heartoflion! Welcome to the steemit website!
I must admit that I was really curious about your post title and, reading through it, I really found your delivery to be excellent. It was quite richly descriptive and certainly thought provoking.
For me, the greatest takeaway was that one should always retain an open enough mind. Judging a person by his or her appearance or initial demeanor can be as meaningful as judging a movie from a still screen-grab. Of books and covers.
The one thing that I'd really recommend next time is including an image of some sort. Preferably something not copy-pasted. People are more likely to click posts with interesting images. How about a picture of a non-identifiable but interesting part of your vehicle? I like using Paint.NET for editing myself - its easy to use.
Incidentally there's plenty to learn about this platform - but if you fancy I've listed a few of my learnings here (and I've much more to learn). There are also plenty of other good sources for info also though I personally found that digging was required.
Well, again, welcome. I look forward to your next post!
@pathforger , great name! I love it!
Thank you so much for all of your advice! I really just wanted to type everything up before I forgot the good parts haha but I definitely intend on adding pictures next time, you actually gave me some really great ideas!
I wanted to include how I did judge the second passenger by his appearance from the very start but I am always one to give the benefit of the doubt and of course first impressions are almost never true to the people we meet in my opinion, but i felt it would take away from what i wanted the main focus to be.
Im not a story teller but I have many stories lol
Thanks again for your great tips and for the warm welcome! I'm excited to type up the next story!
Thank you @heartoflion. I must admit that yours caught my eye too. ^_^
And you are also very welcome and am glad that you found my advice to have been helpful.
You say that you are not a story teller. And yet you recount your experience in quite a compelling fashion, and within your delivery you managed to also weave an underlying message, whether intentional or not. It enriched the experience.
Now keep in mind that this platform can be rather barren to new users. It is likely that you are going to get your best success in contributing nice comments to other more popular peoples' articles.
But if you 'enjoy' sharing your stories then don't let this stop you from posting more original content direct from the university of real life. It will build your personal brand eventually. ^_^