Looking at my self, my journey on hive, I have come to realise the power of not giving up, the power of self determination and the benefit of being teachable.
I've been wrong sometimes , I've made mistakes, been into trouble many times, felt like giving up, but something within me keeps pressing for a push.
Back in the days in 2017 when I heard about steem, I was told about a social media that rewards people for posting and sharing contents. At the time I had no idea what blockchain meant, no clue about the concept of Cryptocurrency. All I was told was that steemit was a rewarding social media and I immediately I likened it to facebook, Twitter and others. But this was a slim picture, I didn't see the big picture.
So I became a preacher, announcing steem to every and anyone I had the opportunity to. Because of what I was told, my message to them was more about the reward system on steem rather than an opportunity for personal human growth, proof of brain and originality. As a matter of fact, my first laptop, I got the money from steem, so i thought this is a blessing that I need to tell everyone about. So made a show of my laptop and told everyone to come experience what I am experiencing.
Sometimes we only know a little, If we knew better, we'd have done better.
At the core of our being we really want to be good and do good, but when there is lack of Understanding, we might have good intentions and yet do the wrong thing. This shouldn't make us give up on ourselves but should call for humility and the desire to learn in our innermost being.
Some years later, there was a hardfork which birthed the hive blockchain. Even at the time I knew just a little about everything that happened on steem and that made me lack even more understanding about hive.
One time I reached out to someone to hire me as a dev, I never knew that steem took a lot of fund from some people, I was just around and was not observant. When I got a reply from this person, He said , "He would never work with someone who still posts on steem" because back in the days I was still posting on steem(it was in the early days of the hardfork). I was suprised because I didn't know anything, I was just looking for a job. Later I found out that steem actually took over 40k from him. Then I saw why he was upset and I really reasoned with him.
So I decided to stay on hive and also determined that I would do something great on hive one day. This dream for me is already coming through and I am grateful to God.
For anyone I have hurt or ever offended, for anyone who have misunderstood or misquoted my actions in the past, if you ever come across this post, please know that sometimes we learn from mistakes and if we never made mistakes we'd never learn. I would not tag anyone because not everyone does like that, but I hope you all get to see this.
Shout out to all lovers of HIVE. I hope I have time to share something soon.
