About halfway through the #HHHLive show on Wednesday, when 
"What do you want to achieve with HIVE?"
due to my obligations, I had to stop listening to the live program.
Unfortunately for me, that's why special editions, such as this Wednesday's show, are not recorded, so I have to settle for the summary that ph1102 published in the recapitulation of every live show.
Why am I here now?
Because on Wednesday I thought I might as well write what I want to achieve with HIVE.
What do I want to get from HIVE and what do I want to give to HIVE?
Primarily, at the beginning of a bear market (my first), I was looking for a place to hide, and where I could spend some time, which in those days I spent looking at charts and tracking the losses of my wallets.
I wanted to be in a place with people, who would not look at me in amazement at the mention of the crypt, as if I were some crazy person, but would understand my words, my confessions and my pains when the market is red, as well as my joy and elation when the market is green.
In addition, for a long time I wanted to find a network where I could post my photos of some places I visited, some of my thoughts, my views,
So I always have them at my fingertips, without them being web2 social networks (FB or Instagram).
Now a lot, when I want to show someone where I've traveled, I reach for the search through Hive, and not the gallery on my phone, because there are a lot more memories on Hive than in the gallery.
And stored permanently, as long as Hive BC.
Fortunately for me, I'm not here to survive.
Those few tens of dollars that I collect per month from postings and the few dollars that I collect per month from curating, do not represent an amount that can in any way affect my standard of living now.
Whether it will affect later and to what extent will depend on how strong I am in the future.
But the rewards I receive certainly give me an incentive to go further, to accumulate HP and thus strengthen my account.
I don't do it the way I initially thought I would, naturally.
Often, wanting my vote to be worth more to other Hivers, whom I vote for, I buy and insert Hive, which I convert into HP.
I don't have any set goals, how much HP I will have at the end of the year, etc. Maybe I won't even collect 1000, and maybe I'll even get 10000.
Everything depends on my presence, but also the possibility and desire to invest in HIVE.
All that matters is that I add and boost HP to HIVE, without thinking about quitting.
Sometimes it's a minimal HP increase, sometimes it's a big one, and all that matters is that it's an increase.
For that reinforcement, I often wait for the first day of the month, when, as a confirmation of my journey, I receive a badge.
And so that I don't do it only once a month, every day I am present and increase my HP a little bit, so that I can get another badge on the first of the month.
Those badges have no value, but they give me confirmation of my stay here and I like to get them and collect them.
So at this moment it can be said that I give HIVE, but I also receive from HIVE 🙂
In this mutual giving and receiving, through engagement and socializing, I get the opportunity to meet as many different people as possible, for now only online, but in the future in the real world as well.
To see as many places as possible, which I'm sure I won't visit in my life, to learn something about other cultures and their customs, to hear the thoughts of people from all over the world, either my like-minded people or those who don't think like me.
To get involved in communities where I will share my souvenir collections, my projects that I carry out independently, where I will share my impressions of my favorite drinks or food recipes, where I will post some interesting photos...
With HIVE, I managed to make it a place where I would socialize and where I enjoy that socializing.
And I'm glad about that 🙂
