First I would like to say your writing English is great. It is my native language and even with years of writing lots and lots of reports in my career, I am far from perfect. In college an English professor used to tell us that the most important part of writing is to convey to the reader what you intend. You do that beautifully!

This is great post that lets the reader reflect on their own journey on this platform. When I first heard about Steemit I just dismissed it. I kept hearing more about it so I finally looked into it and I eventually signed up and started some interactions with others through their post. I did enjoy it and finally did some posting, with limited success and after a few months I gave up. I not only was not getting many followers, but with that I was not earning.

After a short sabbatical I came back and it was then I realized that earning was not the most important thing here. It was a social platform after all, so it was time to work with it in that capacity. It was then I began picking up followers and was interacting more. I found what I call my niche and built on it.

I love sharing my photographs through my posts, but I also found new friends from all over the world. That interaction with people has kept me going since. I also try and help others, after all my career was in the helping professions and with that ending, and I sensed that Steemit would keep that door open for me and it does.

I have made many mistakes along the way, but I also received help along the way. Not initially...for some reason newcomers are often ignored, but eventually the support and guidance came.

To close this comment I would like to say I got a sense that this platform was constructed in such a way that people from all over the world, from all types of background and cultures, could come together and get to know each other first hand without the censorship of government. It takes the power away from the governments and gives it to the people (in this case Steemians). As we learn more about each other we can find that we are very much the same in many ways. We all have similar wants and needs.

I better close out this comment. I apologize if I wrote too much here. Your post triggered this and the writing just started to flow. Thank you for sharing this post and a part of yourself!