Thanks for your relatable experience and advice. I'd never quit my exercise, drums, baseball or recycling, etc.. I'd never ever let those fires die. I'm just not interested in sharing them on Steem much anymore because the joy I feel from them is soured when they're rarely acknowledged.

I wish it was just a bad day, but I gave it 26 tooth-and-nail months with very limited success. It's not blaming others so to speak, but with the small pool of active Steemians these days, it's hard to understand the consistent oversight. This leads me to conclude that the interest in what I offer is negligible at best. Eventually, it's natural to lose motivation to keep sharing these personal things.

After all of this time of trying to tell myself exactly what you're saying, nothing has improved or changed to help me feel good about the effort I'm putting forth. I've had some moments to shine, but the overall picture has been a struggle I don't see the value in continuing. I tried to tell myself this would be for the friendships, but 99% of those people flaked or don't care. Again, it circles back to me apparently not fitting in and it's about time to call a spade a spade.