So ive been thinking. You know.. that thing you do when not everything is going great around you and you try to make sense of things. I look at it through phases.
- Steem is at 8 USD, rivers are flowing with gold and the reward pool is overflowing. "Better get that content out, that one big payout could mean months rent."
- Oh its going down... Well gotta work harder! Those are still some nice payouts.
- Those 8 USD days turn into a legend you tell your kids about. To quote Han Solo: "Its true, all of it".
- Steem is at around 1USD.. Now this is where things get complicated. Doing well at these times is tough for everyone.
Curies and OCDs dont pack that big punch anymore, whales turn into Orcas and some start to question things. Powerful people that once were flying high, ask themselves, should i have sold when i had the chance? That "Lambo" was a phone call away.
Now all those things you might have waved away when the times were good, start looking mighty bad. When things arent going well, thats when the heavy thinking starts. "If only this would change, if only this wasnt happening, "you there guy! Why are you doing this?"
Ive been guilty of this as well, but maybe because i havent been around during the great times, being "a child of the bear market", i can step back a bit and say: "Maybe, just maybe we should be happy with what we got."
Some might think that its easy for me to say. I dont have tens-hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in Steem, im running nodes and what not. And that is true. But all those that invested so much, even now, pulling all their Steem out will do ok, many of them making a nice profit. But me... and Steemians like me were really banking on this Steem deal to change our lives. Yes it might be naive, but deep down many of us feel that way even if wer not ready to admit it.
In "real life" ive had success, but all that fades in comparison to what every one of us could have achieved here. This isnt a job, not really. Being on Steem is akin to buying Microsoft stocks in the 80s, buying Amazon stocks after the internet bubble.
Those that work had and try to push boundaries, those that dig deep, fight to make it better for others and themselves. Those that embraced the paradigm set before us are the strenght of Steem. Theres a reason i call Steems whitepaper, the "Steem Bible".. It gives us ideals we should strive towards and ill always be of an opinion to the bitter end, that its not Ned and Dan that failed us if Steem goes down.
If it does happen, and i wholeheartedly believe it will not it will be only ourselves to blame, no one else. They gave us Steem to do with it what we wish and some of us resorted to doing some shitty things..
Heres a revolutionary idea. We are giving it to you and everyone else. We will help a bit... But the catch is.... In the end all this will thrive or fail based on what you do with it.
So what now? Well i see we have 2 camps.
The first one is the negative, "cup is half empty" camp. "The Steem has no future" camp, there is nothing we can do about it, Steem is a failed project.
And the other "cup is half full".. Yes some crap is happening, things arent going great but that wont demotivate me to push on. Our hard work, our talent, our time might not be worth a fraction of the fatness of whale wallets but thats all some of us have. And we are giving it all we have.
And those that give it all they have i have nothing but the greatest respect for.
So i have to ask the first camp... What is the negativity you hold gain you? Isnt it just a burden? Doesnt being negative and dissapointed just ruin your day? Negative emotions lead to cynicism and frustration in the end.
There are still so many people here, so many amazing people trying to do amazing things. We are all social beings and i for one feel a connection to those i interact with here. Not because we are all children of Gaea (not a hippy :D) or we all are connected like the blue people from Avatar, but rather because wer in this together and if wer all better off, financially, mentally, what ever, i will be better off.
So pop that beer cap, yes the beer might be warm right now, but sit back and be happy you have something to drink.
This ones on me. 🍺 😋
But maybe im just talking nonsense. Id probably be one of those violinists playing on the deck of the Titanic while it sinks, playing till the bitter end....
Ill see you guys later,
And...
Some of my music videos:
On my own: Les Miserables:
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AC/DC-Thunderstruck/Beethoven-Moonlight Sonata instrumental
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Aretha Franklin: Natural Woman
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Steem Original: TO THE MOON
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James Arthur: Impossible
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Moving on (Original Song)
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Frank Sinatra: My Way
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Elton John: Can you feel the love tonight (Lion King soundtrack)
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Enya: May it be (LOTR soundtrack)
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Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack (Hoist the colors and Main theme)
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I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables
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The Minnowsupport Lullaby
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Schindlers List Theme
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Sam Smith: "Im not the only one"
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Meno/Pechichemena: "Wait" cover
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Whitney Houston: "I have nothing"
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Beyonce: "Listen"
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Cee Lo Green: "Forget you"
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