This is it, this is the whole story. I almost don't need to write a big post about this. Actually 
I can't relax because once I solved my own financial problems, I can now hear the screams of factory workers whose fingers have been gnawed to the bone. Being alive and perceiving reality is mostly unpleasant.
This is about taking the time to find the mind gems all around us, and assign our own unique value to another. This is not about blind upvotes (although you might find value in that, so you can). This is about forgetting yourself for a long enough time so you can start to notice the lights emanating from minds all around you. They are all there. And they are waiting. There is also a lot of broken glass, too. It's in a different and more fragile state.
Do you realize the enormity of this last sentence?
The truth is, we cannot figure out what gifts we possess inside that would match that 5 Steem.
You may not understand this yet, but you will.
Do you build sofas, lighting contraptions and tables for your Steemit visitors? Or do you break someone else's glass on the floor and scoop up broken bits that never belonged to you in an attempt to resell those pieces to unwitting suckers?
Which will you become?
Broken glass dealers have a short shelf-life on Steemit.
Everyone is an owner now. You coming in here makes you an active owner, not a consumer, definitely not a customer. This place was built by people, and most of us are still here. You are here now, what will you build? Or what will you try to break? Will you try to break the spirit of a poor Russian artist by stealing her artistic soul? You could never do that anyway, because the source of her creative mind cannot be stolen. She can produce more, whereas you will be broke again. You never fixed yourself and you still have that horrible black hole inside your heart. You don't know how to fix that with stealing.
Whose problems will you solve? You say you want more followers. Why should anyone follow you? Do you have an answer for that? Why, why why. Solve the problems that a thousand people have and you'll make thousands.
You don't have to be a software engineer to build on Steemit.
Most of the amazing palaces have not yet been built on Steem yet. And visionaries don't need to be programmers. You can have a good vision of something you want to build, and attract developers to your idea.
Let's not forget that we are all mining with our minds.
You are not a consumer anymore. You don't need to copy anyone. All you need to do is listen to the barely audible whispers of your own mind. Not many are even able to do this anymore. It is because creative thought has mostly been snuffed out of human minds. We are all in a rapidly shifting technological age that is leaving the industrial age behind. The idea of inputting a "time card" into a wage-hour calculating machine seems more and more absurd and a product of a slowly dying industrial age.
There is no starting or stopping.
The internet like the crypto markets never sleep.
The idea of a closing bell has nothing to do the universe, matter, energy or the natural flow of life.
Our cells never stop, neither do our hearts or lungs. Even while we sleep, we solve the impenetrable problems of our rational minds.
Did you know that the place in which I live was made into reality through a dream? I mean, a dream at night....my subconscious. I let my subconscious mind solve the problems that my conscious self finds too difficult. Steem and all the technology we have been given at no cost to us is like a dream of epic proportions.
Many of us are like children trying to use these new Steem tools, and we keep breaking our toys. The creators had different ideas than that of the current world which is dominated by the idea that "humble, intelligent people are drowned out by the loud, noisy psychopaths."
Being able to give others wealth via the upvote is perhaps the single most amazing thing in Planet Steem. It's an unprecedented dream come true for those of us who have always dreamed of making some impact on the world. And of course the best part is that we don't have to even touch our own precious Steem. All we have to do is power it up, and then our upvotes become like magic wands.
The dreamers finally have a tool that they thought only existed in some far off land of imagination.
But this tool is real and it exists. The truth is that I always wanted to become Willy Wonka. I have the tools to make that happen now. I have to work on my mind next.
First time ever we have a tool to transform our society, and entire world through our own efforts and those around us who see these magic dust particles in every transfer.
We all like data, price feeds and statistics, I am no different. But when I read something that is produced by a mind which is literally loaded with an abundant variety of idea gems, like one would find inside a magnificent food forest, I can't help but realize that we are all here for a very imporant reason.
We don't have to get all squishy and sentimental. You don't have to support those with whom you cannot relate. You can voluntary extend your value to those who you value. Steem respects choices, and being an extremely picky person, I am glad I can make my own choices each day here. I can decide who has value to me. This is a feeling of freedom.
All this means is that instead of playing mindless Farmville games, we have the chance to cultivate the lives and minds around us with whom we resonate. We can build instead of destroy. That's what I meant to say. And we can disagree, too, as we can honestly discuss what matters to us most. We have a good shot at being ourselves and maybe learning from other nations things that are lacking in our own countries. From Nigeria, I learned about humility.....
