Yes, I say happy birthday, because four years ago I discovered this community, and the way this blockchain community works.
I had been out in the wilderness of cryptocurrency, kissing frogs and looking for a prince. Then I found this community and I felt like I had found civilization after wandering in the wilderness.
It has been a long and complicated journey, in a place with no rules, but really a lot of rules, you just learn over time. The community is complicated, and crypto is complicated, and many who join, don't last, because this stuff can be very hard, and people can be very mean, but others can be very helpful, as you learn abd process all the hard stuff.
I have many hard months in the beginning, and many posts got zero votes. I needed to learn a lot about networking, commenting, communities, rules, etc... But I stayed because of the potential here for financial freedom, and because I love writing, and interacting with humans.
It is said that: "Hard times create strong men, and strong men create good times."
I like to think I have survived the hard times of the bull market and the evolution and changes this community has been through for four years. I realize people may not agree with me, but I think now is the good times.
When I started I learned to be thick skinned, as not easily offended or triggered.
Being here has taught me perspective.
Not my perspective, but that I am blind to other peoples perspective, and also deaf if I won't listen to it.
I truly believe we are all captives of our limited perspective. We have two eyes, two ears, and two hands. We are limited to a 2 dimensional sensory perception, of a 3 dimensional world.
We can improve our perspective by listening to others, but collectively we need to acknowlege and understand how each of us sees only a piece of the world through our eyes, ears and hands interacting with the portion of the world right in fromt of us. The rest of the world is literally unseeable, unhearable and untouchable by us, where we live
But we can communicate with people toughing a different part of the world, and learn from their perspective. And as we get smarter we realize we need multiple points of view or perspectives to see the whole picture.
Work just as hard commenting and interacting, as you do writing and sharing your point of view.
We can't all be good creators, but we can work to become good consumers.
By reading other peoples stuff, commenting and interacting, we put attention back into the attention economy, and we put social back into the term social media.
Write your own stuff, respect your brand, read other peoples stuff, respect their brand enough to comment, and understand that to get you must give.
This is the attention economy, in order to get other peoples attention, you must be willing to give your attention to them, or be willing to pay for their attention. Which ever one you choose, it's your decison, your consequences. No one should tell you what to do, but you must own what you do.
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