Dog walk diaries: into the wind

There comes a time in every long-term Steemians life where the experience of being on Steem gets a little too much and they start to lose it, begin to rant. Often it is because the way the system works, what is proposed or what is changing doesn't support their behaviour, expectations or vision of what they believe Steem will be.

If you have been here long enough and invested enough of yourself, this has likely happened to you too. At these times, it is hard to recognise it in ourselves, easy to forget the platform id's in constant flux and instead, attach heavily to current and always limited thinking and double down.

It is very easy in this state to lose patience, to stop discussing, become uncharitable in thought, frustrated, angry, mean and bitter. All this can happen while still feeling "right".

Often, people use arguments that are right only under certain conditions, yet have not thoroughly thought through those factors as they are outside of scope or do not support personal agenda. Some get stuck in the past without consideration for what has changed since that past and some get stuck in the future and try to rush what is yet to happen and is highly uncertain.

No matter how smart or invested one is or believes themselves to be, we are all prone to the risk of becoming blind to the larger ecosystem as we focus on what we find out utmost importance at the time. This means we weigh some aspects much too heavily and scream into the wind while diminishing other factors that influence them.

This is something that only really affects some people here, generally the people who are putting themselves into Steem in various ways in the hope or expectation of a future result of some kind. If we don't take a step back and evaluate what we are doing and feeling often enough, it is very easy to become self-destructive and blame our position on the actions of others.

Because of the economics, Steem is a much more complex system than most people are used to dealing with daily and there are a lot of moving parts, people and behaviours that go largely unseen. Naturally we focus on what we know or think we understand but because of unseen influence, it doesn't behave as we expect and we can feel powerless, oppressed or worthless by the system and the people who have their own vision of Steem.

The attrition rate is in part so high because most people feel that dealing in such an environment is just not worth it while others believe it is because of this. Who knows where it all leads but no one is going to be satisfied all of the time here, especially in these early stages, but if one does want a future here, try not to burn all the bridges as you can find yourself on a self-imposed island and then there really is very little one can do.

There is always more to the story than any one person holds, and the ending is not yet written, despite what some people believe.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
_{(posted from phone)}