"Goodbye, my love." || [WE-117]

I know I just talked about how much Hive has been good to me just yesterday. Having to say goodbye now makes my heart shatter. This being my last post here, I would like to make it memorable.

The internet's broken, and it's all buggy now. Our immutable blockchain technology seems to be defective now. And what would be the blockchain without its immutability? Just the regular web2 we have around. For this reason, the Hive blockchain will be shut down in a few hours.

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I am utterly lost for words to put down, but I will not leave the chain without a proper farewell.

I would like to document many things that I would miss about Hive, as well as the things that I may embark on, as Hive has come and filled a void in my life. I would need to find a way to fill that void again. I doubt I will find anything like Hive again.

The adrenaline

Tell me you do not think about Hive often, and I will not believe you. I can't go more than a few hours without thinking about Hive. When I am away for too long, my fingers get the itch to dance around my PC's keyboard, relaying my thoughts and expressions in words, whether I am writing a post or making comments.

Well, "adrenaline" may not be the exact word I need to enunciate my thoughts on how I feel about Hive, but you get the drill, I am sure.

My day would now revert to the regular old activities that really never did much to add value to my life. I would then go back to playing games a lot.

I play chess, and I am pretty good. Or, I used to be pretty good, till I stopped learning and just played games without thinking much about my moves. But nonetheless, it would be another opportunity to sharpen my knowledge and skills on the chess board.

Well, I probably should not say "skills." It's just thinking through permutations of possibilities and combinations to evaluate the best move to make that would bring one closer to victory. This involves ensuring that one does not make a mistake, as that would bring one much closer to defeat much faster.

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If you are not playing the best move in chess, you may as well be making a mistake. Well, not really. But if your opponent does play a better move, then say, " Houston, we have a problem."

Enough rambling about my chess escapades. Other things that I would most likely pick up again are going out more.

I really never did that before joining Hive. It's something I would rather say I may want to try. All I do now is sit in front of this rectangle machine in front of me all day.

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I will miss learning and having fun.

You do not really get that anywhere; you are having fun while learning. Most web2 platforms are entirely one or the other. You are either on a site like "LinkedIn", reading articles and all, or on a platform like "Instagram," looking at photos and videos. And even at that, engagement is really poor.

Reading that last paragraph again, I realize I was probably wrong about the fact that you can't really have fun together on other platforms. So I will just get to the point.

Being here, I get to learn about things from different people from around the world. It may even be as simple as those quotes that @ galenkp uses in his posts every time, coupled with his perspective on life situations from experience. Or, it may be some hack to make videos look better, or some tip on how to make proper investments with crypto. Anything at all.

And the best part is, I get to relate to the thoughts of these authors and gain more insights about things, sometimes unrelated to the content. Sometimes there is fun along the line.

The crazy rooms

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Many of the rooms we have concerning Hive exist because of Hive. Most of the servers I am on in Discord are all linked to Hive, and there are activities every now and then because Hive is alive.

In some of the rooms, there are giveaways; in others, there are crazy topics that just pop up sometimes, and you just find different people with diverse opinions on matters.

These are some of the things that play big roles in making Hive a space that is so enjoyable and fun.

The people I have come to know.

Apart from the authors I have come to learn about and the rooms I have joined, there are some individuals that I have come to grow fond of because of Hive.

Conversations with them may surround the Hive, or it may surround other aspects. But it is all because it existed in the first place. What then shall we do about our relationship now that Hive's gone?

We show up here every day to communicate and grow together, get back to our daily lives outside the Hive, come back again to the Hive and repeat...

So this is goodbye?

It is sad to let Hive go now. I never want to. But it is what it is.

I am a grown man (maybe just a young chap), but I sure will go on crying because my love is leaving me. Oh, shall we ever meet again, my love? Please say "yes."