Day 3 - Trying to Chose the Best Thing Steemit Has Done for Me

Day 3 of the 30 Day Writing Challenge

Today's question was as follows: May 30 Days Writing Challenge - Day Three: What’s The Best Thing That Happened To You Because Of Steemit?

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I am going to have a very hard time to be able to answer this question precisely. So many wonderful things have happened since I joined Steemit that I might not be able to crystallize one BEST event or impact out of all the good ones.

Let me list the many good things which have happened since I joined the platform. Maybe that will help me to make that choice.

I have published one or more blog posts on a regular basis. Actually, according to Steemit board, I have been going straight for 7 months and been a weekly author for 33 weeks.
That is a lot of writing practice.
I have learned a lot about photography. There is no way that I can call myself even an amateur photographer -I still consider myself a beginner - but a much more advanced beginner now. Many great photographers are on Steemit and many are only too willing to give tips and to share how to improve.
Before Steemit, I knew that Cryptocurrency existed but I didn't have money to invest, so, I figured it was not for me. Since I am on Steemit, I have earned what I consider a good chunk of money and am very happy about that. This has also opened me to seek out other opportunities to earn crypto and I have several (very small) holdings of other tokens.
I have met some awesome people online and several of them in person at local meetups. These relationships, in turn, have shown me new opportunities and I learned about new tools which are helpful to my Steemit journey and beyond.
One of the tools I found out about at a local meetup by a super knowledgeable steemian @protegeaa is a plugin that allows to cross-publish from a Wordpress blog to Steemit! Brilliant! This got me excited to post to my podcast blog again and it is helping me to populate my steemit podcast page as well.
I found communities and friends which are closer than some of my family to me.
I was able to present and attend the Steemcreators conference organized by I.J. and his crew. They created @steemcreators and put on an event that brought together many Steemians ready to change the world with the power of Steemit and crypto.
I have been able to create more of an income with Steemit than I was before working on all kinds of projects. It is not an easy prospect for a woman who has spent many years raising children to either enter the job market with a reasonable wage or even think of the possibility of retirement. Earning on Steemit gives me great hope for the future.
I have been able to create a strong community around the #freewrite initiative which is only getting stronger since starting the @freewritehouse. That, I am extremely proud of.

There have been more wonderful experiences, but I think this gives a pretty good overview of my time on Steemit since I started last August.

It is extremely hard to choose only one as the best thing that happened to me - so, I am going to settle on two.

The freewriter community and the hope to be able to have means to provide for myself as I age have been the very best things that have happened to me.

Steem on, my friends. Together, we soar!!

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