Welllll... maybe you do have the "luxury" of not having to be in a terrific hurry at all times! We live just outside most delivery area limits so most things are brought to us by "standard"

Sadly, it does seem that way, at least for most people. I get a lot of joy from growing a garden... you plant something in spring and have to way till late summer or fall to harvest it; there is a lot

Thanks for the support @inidaunited and @steemflow, I appreciate it very much!

Yes, I can very much relate to the "dive in deep" sentiment... as a result of which I may be fairly "scattered," but I am also very good at most of the things I scatter myself into.

Thanks for the support, I appreciate it very much!

Medicine is definitely a fine field to be in, and a long course of study, so well done! And you are definitely doing something that requires a lot of focus. I don't know how the system works in Nigeria...

Thanks for the kind words @owasco! Yes, I did end up going to college. As it turned out, my (biological) dad passed away a month after my 18th birthday, meaning that I was considered "of age"

Well, I certainly appreciate the "slow build" that goes with Hive... I've been at it for 5 1/2 years now, I hope to continue for as long as I can, or I remain interested. Building a small

Indeed! I think there would be no harm in being taught "planning for the future" in school, even though many might argue that the lessons might become obsolete, on account of how fast technological

Thanks Denise! I think if there was one thing my otherwise dysfunctional parents left me with, it was being trained in "delayed gratification" from a very young age. Good things are worth waiting

Thanks for your kind words @nickydee! Seems like you have managed to establish yourself pretty well and "get seen" within the month or so you've been part of the community. Whereas I recognize

Happy August to you, Joan! Everything does seem to merge and flow together... and along with that, the sense of urgency and importance to get it all done slowly diminishes.

I was deeply skeptical of Steemit... or at least its ability to endure, in any form. The money didn't even seem "real,"... UNTIL I took out enough that we bought a much needed set of new tires

My idealistic self is disappointed, for sure... but yes, this will probably always be a niche social venue. Still, even back in 2005, social blogging sites like Xanga had as many as 30 million active blogs...

Yes, it's funny how time tends to reverse the situation... and what we thought adults were "silly" for thinking back then has now become fact for us!

Oh, I know there are quite a few groups doing the newcomer welcome thing... of course most are (understandably) bot messages, which people are mostly trained to ignore. I'm more thinking along the lines

I keep telling myself that I should be more active in some of the weekly group events, but I run into precisely that feeling that I don't want Hive to start feeling like a job. It isn't. For me, this is

Ironically, even though Hive is a social content plantform, the idea of social media where people actually engage and are social with each other (beyond the stereotypical "nice pic!" comment)

I had this strange idea that you would suddenly reappear on the anniversary of when you went walkabout... I hope you are well and happy! ❤️

It's a strange and possibly vicious cycle: the more humanity has strived for this thing called "civilization," the more we have reinvented ourselves as a Human Have-ings rather than Human Be-ings.