I think it is worth celebrating. I passed 20k recently with most of it earned, but I have been buying some recently. Getting to orca would be cool, but having a bigger vote adds some pressure to use it well. Back when I had about 14k it was worth almost $100k for a short while. Imagine if we get back to that sort of level! I do not see it happening in the short term, but if we can have some sort of breakthrough then great things are possible. I want to see Steem reach its potential. What I make for myself is not that important.