Happy Anniversary; My top 5 entries for Hive Learner's featured topics.
It's a wonderful week on Hive and I can feel the vibe on the platform coupled with the fact that this week is my birthday. I was born on the 25th of March, and sharing the same birth week with Hive and the Hive Learner community makes me feel super excited because while everyone is celebrating for two, I am doing a triple celebration.
My little success story on Hive wouldn't be complete without Hive Learner's community and I might probably be one of the inconsistent members of the platform without them. Joining Hive was something I was very reluctant about, it took me a long after I got to know Hive before I join and even when I did, the motivation to engage from time to time wasn't there.
I usually feel like I am alone on the platform because whenever I post, I usually don't get engagement except from one or two people I met on other platforms. The engagement was discouraging so I disappeared for a while with the thought that the platform wasn't made for me. I was away for some time and on my return, I spoke to @Princessbusayo who happens to be a friend I met from another platform and she introduced me to the HIVE LEARNER'S COMMUNITY.
I got the discord link to the community discord channel and on the 16th of April 2022, I stepped into the community for the first time. I was warmly received by the members and I felt like with a community as loving as this, I stand a chance of becoming successful with my Hive goals. I did my introduction and patiently waited for the moderator's approval to start participating in the community weekly featured post.
I got the approval and here I am today. Interesting journey right? That's not all, ensure you check my next featured post article for continuity.
I have been participating in the community featured topics for about 10 months now and with every topic chosen after voting during the weekend hangout, I always feel very connected to them and inspired to write. The featured topics never make me run out of something to write and many times, the topics have to do about our personal lives and experiences.
After going through my entries so far for the Hive Learner's featured topics, I found it difficult to choose just five out of all because I doubt if I have ever failed to publish any of the featured topics and I ensure that I give nothing but best when writing all my articles on Hive.
I am always inspired to write because somehow, I am educating someone out there with my life experience, knowledge, perspectives/ view of things, and the assurance of getting quality engagement crowns it all.
The assurance of getting wonderful engagement boosts my inspiration to write always because the pride of every writer is to get feedback on their content, without feedback the urge to write is always not there for me. Members of the Hive Learner's community are doing a tremendous job when it comes to engaging with one another and I always ensure I return the good energy by giving my best in writing articles and engaging on other members' posts.
After checking critically, I was able to come up with my top five entries for the Hive Learners featured topics.
I wrote this article as an entry to w39e1 of Hive Learner's featured topic and I couldn't prevent myself from pouring everything I have always wanted to share on this very particular topic. "Letting go", was about how I overcame the fear that resides in my heart as a kid. I always felt like I will be swallowed up by people whenever I am in a gathering and being the quiet type didn't help me as a scared kid. It exposed me to a series of bullying incidents but at a point, I was broken and didn't have a choice but to get rid of the fear that was holding me down.
I broke the shackles and for the very first I decided to fight back against being bullied, I realise that until you rebuke the filthy behavior of people toward you, nothing will change.
I was inspired to write this topic because a lot of people are been bullied, cheated, and oppressed in their everyday life. These things happen to them at work, school, within the family, among friends, and even in religious places but they endure it because of fear.
The article was meant to encourage people to always speak up even when they are overpowered or outnumbered, letting the fear go is the first step to take and a lot of changes can happen for you after.
MAKING LIFE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN FOR MY FAMILY MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME
I wrote this as an entry for w15e3 and it reminds me of my foundation. I and my family didn't have the best of life while growing up but we fought through every challenge together and our past didn't determine our future.
Being the first child of the family made me carry lots of burdens and I am glad that I was able to succeed after all.
Making life beautiful for my family again has always topped my dreams and even though I haven't done the best yet, I am happy with the little I have been able to achieve with them.
I was motivated to write this topic because I lost people who I thought were friends just because I choose my family over anything else, they felt I was slowing myself down but they were mistaken. Initially, I thought I was delaying myself but whenever I think deeply, I see myself making the best decision of my life. Later, I realized that I was building myself because even when the world decides to turn me down, my family will always be there for me.
Investing in your family means investing in yourself and it will never be a wrong thing to do. The article was to open people's minds to do the right and needful thing when it comes to your family affairs, these are the people who will stand through thick and thin with you, some friends can do the same but you can't be too sure.
FOOD TYPES DETERMINE YOUR HEALTH QUALITY
We usually get varieties of topics for the Hive Learner's featured post and being able to share my view on the relationship between the food we eat and our health gave me a great feeling.
Food is inevitable for us and many of us are eating wrongly which is causing great harm to our health both physically and mentally. In the article, I mentioned how consuming excessively chemically preserved food can put us at risk of getting terrible health challenges.
I was motivated to write so that I can share with people about the risk attached to eating unhealthy meals. Everything we want to become in life starts with having good health and the importance of it can't be quantified.
The story of an older friend inspired me to write this article as an entry to w23e1 of the Hive learner's featured topics.
This particular lady didn't have a stable relationship until she clocked 35 years of age. She has tried to make relationships work and forced herself on people but none worked out.
She eventually found a man when she had given up because it was God-ordained time.
I am a believer in Christ and looking unto him is something I am never tired of doing because without him, I am nothing. There are many times in our lives when we think that we have been neglected by God but the truth is that he hasn't forgotten us.
There is indeed a time for everything in life and God works with time. Have you noticed that there are times when you easily do the thing you have been struggling with for a long time, it happened easily because the time is right.
God is never too late because he knows what's right for us at every particular time. While waiting for him, we just have to prepare ourselves for the moment.
BENEATH AND BEYOND HAPPINESS; MORE THAN JUST A FEELING
Happiness is a feeling we all crave but we look in the wrong direction for it. Waiting for others' acceptance or people's validation of your life before you can be happy is a terrible way of seeking happiness and I explained in the article the easy ways to achieve happiness.
The feeling is free if we walk in the right channel to achieve it. I was motivated to write about this because I was eager to share with other members of the community my methods of achieving and maintaining happiness so that they can learn a few things from me.
I would love to say a big shout-out to the moderators of the community for doing a great job and impacting the members of the community positively. I hope you had a great time reading through, thanks for always engaging as usual.
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