This is sort of a follow up to the previous post I had which people liked. I am unsure why, but I am free to guess. I am thinking that most people, who liked it, felt the same way I felt at least during sometime along their Hive Journey. Recently I have been out on vacation and had time to think about a lot of different things. At the same time I was reading a couple of books, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and also a books by Haruki Murakami, The Hard Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World. The later I am still not finished, and struggling with it a bit, but the former is one of my most favorite book and I have read it a number of times, and it is an exceptionally easy read.
I was recently been to Mt. Rainier National Park area, and the picture above in Bench Lake within the NP. That rock outcrop overlooking the lake below is one of the best spot is sit down, relax and read your favorite book. It requires a bit of a walk to get there, but it is not bad. So as I were sitting there and reading The Alchemist, with my kids went down to the outlet stream by the lake to play with dragonflies, world takes a calm content feeling. I was not too far from the nearest paved road yet miles from the civilization. I kept thinking there are some honest people who spend 4 years plus of their life here on hive. There are some honest developers who are building hive daily. There are some web developer, game developers, working on the second layer solutions. There are some talented gamers who are playing different blockchain games, writing reviews of other PC/console games. There are honest bloggers, artists, singers, photographers... and all other kinds of content producers who are trying honestly to put something out there for the rest of us to consume. Why?
No I refused to believe it is JUST for the money. Rewards are a by-product. It is an incentive. In some cases, in the developing world, it may even be a life support, especially under the current circumstances. But no, I don't believe majority of us are doing it just for the money. Call me naive, but I like to believe that.
No, not really. But look we did make a fire. We did make a community project. Yes, not everything is good about it, and there is things that can be improved. I get it. But look even if you say, we copy-pasted a blockchain; go try it, its not that easy. Notice, others have tried it too, but I think we got the right people
That is the fire I made by my backyard of the cabin I was staying at. As you can perhaps see it is late burn. I enjoy staying by the fire when the flames are gone. Damn I just thought about a podcast called Slow Burn! Oh that first one on Watergate was good! I digress!
But anyways, I was thinking while sitting by the fire, when rest of the family went to bed, are we doing this right? Is there going to any light at the end of the tunnel. I like to think so. Then I thought, we are positively changing people's lives already. I personally know multiple individuals who are currently living off hive income, even at these low prices. For a successful content creator it is already possible in the developing world. So why not in the developed world in future. Mind you, they are not rich or anything, but they are using hive as their single source of income. I think that swells.
The following day, I had time again to sit my the river at dusk. Dusk is a quite time around there, other than the sound of water and a few birds, there are no other sounds. Definitely, no human sound. Times like this you consider can you be Santiago, and turn yourself into the wind? Hey, maybe I did, may be that is why you don't see me in that picture sitting on that bench. :)
