But the truth is, between full time Steeming, Steem Projects, real life problems back home and my usual procrastination I haven´t had time to sit down and work on my novel or finish some of the short stories I have half written. Hell, I haven´t even had time in the past month to properly write a Steemit post that is actually about me and that follows my normal posting behaviour.
I haven´t even had the time nor the inspiration to write something about my road to Steem Fest and we´re already in week 4. How terrible of a person I am if I can´t even join my own idea?
Well you see, it´s all about the choices I´ve made.
Would I prefer to forget about all the community initiatives I´m involved in, drop all the projects, stop replying in discord and steem.chat and just post crap and boost it with my own delegation, get into vote collusion with other whales, use my votes only in my friends and family´s posts and just try to stack as much steem as I can? Probably, you´ll never know.
Some people say that everyone is a revolutionary until he gets to be on the other side of the coin. Everyone is an idealist until he´s part of the Plutarchy. Everyone is in favour of the minnows and the vote spreading until they are a whale.
I like to see myself as someone who still has his feet on the ground and stays true to the moral values, ideas and convictions he had when he was a minnow.
So that is my first choice. I´ve decided to focus in the community instead of making my own posts - around 80% of my rewards of the past 14 days are going to be used for giveaways -, I decided to not boost myself today in order to add my grain of salt to the plaform´s healthy growth in the future.
Am I making less Steem per week than before? Yes. Do I mind? No. Why? Because I was already a top 200 rewarded author before this dry streak and I don´t see why I shouldn´t step down for a while. Will I go back to posting more frequently? Bet your ass I will, hopefully sooner rather than later, but I´m not going to push myself, nothing good comes from pushing myself. I mean, if I wanted to be pushed around I would get a girlfriend and get a 9 to 5 and voilá, I´d be pushed around 25/7.
Don´t get me wrong. I´m not writing this for the sake of virtue signaling or because I want to be portrayed as a saint. I´m just opening myself and explaining what´s going on in my mind towards the platform and my choice of working towards the community instead of being selfish - which experience has taught me is way more profitable and better in the long run, but it´s only better for the person being selfish; we are striving to have a better future as a whole, not as a single.
You know. Looking back in retrospective, attending Steem Fest this year isn´t my decision it is one year ago Eric´s decision. This year I´m not making any choice, I just am. I´m going. After last year´s experience and all the positive outcomes that resulted from attending SF2 in Lisbon my brain didn´t even consider not attending this year.
I met so many amazing people, learned so much about myself, understood the value of the blockchain technology and the importance of making connections but most importantly, I learned that I can still relate to other people and actually have fun around them. Something I found very difficult to do if the other person wasn´t a nomad or long term traveler like myself.
Choices. I´m not really sure I´m deliberately making more choices than those two. I try to just flow and go along with whatever happens. I don´t have money problems but I definitely live on a tight budget 24/7. It´s been almost two years since I started living with only what I need and not what I want and it´s the most liberating sensation I´ve had. Getting rid of the attachment to the material was one of the best choices I´ve made. Today, my whole life fits in a backpack and, if I have to be honest, my whole life fits in a fanny pack - IF I had one, don´t you dare believing for a second I wear a freaking fanny pack.
What I´m trying to get to is, I´m not making deliberate choices, I just follow what I feel in the very moment and trust it will take me a step closer to Steem Fest. After that, I know I have some ideas and some goals but I won´t make any decisions right now, in the end they always change in the last minute.
I think this was one of my most out of touch freewrites, I felt it like I was lost between ideas and I didn´t really deliver a post like those I used to, I guess you can lose practice even for freewrites. But rules are rules and I ain´t going back to rewrite some paragraphs or add any ideas.
Thank you for reading this, I hope you got to know me a bit better and perhaps when we meet in Poland, you´ll feel like I´m not a stranger, but a weird acquaintance you usually avoid in the Christmas dinners but you are stuck with him for 4 days.
Hello Eric?
This is amazing I mean you're a whale? Yes everybody knows this? Yes but the truth is there's this thing about whales that definitely makes them whale-esque but that definitely doesn't come with you.
I've seen too many post that describes what you stood for some of them detailed your early days on steemit living in Mexico and how you upheld moral standard.
I mean what the? You can live the whale life, live ostentatiously and extravagantly and it won't even be a crime but you've definitely entailed yourself to selflessness and things that are right and wrong and important in life. You're no saint definitely, who is?
Truth is you are inspiration to me, even if sentences can't even express enough. You're road to steemfest is coming nicely no pressure you're doing just amazing.
@Josediccus here
Hahaha I think I could never live the "life of a whale" cause I´m a virtual whale but I totally get what you mean! I´m glad to see you commenting again, I´m happy you are out of the hospital my friend :)
Hahahaha yeah I'm glad you totally get what I mean, and thank you for taking time to reply, cheers my friend! 😁😁
This is the only thing that can be asked of any user, remember what it was like even if you got in early on the gravy train. Everyone starts off at the bottom or buys their way to the top.
This was one of your better freewrites my friend and shows who the Nomad is we all love and respect. To be honest, if I was able to attend Steemfest you are my number one "wish to meet" Steemian. You choose the life of a Nomad I took the path of Clan father, our hearts are the same. I think anyone attending Steemfest who doesn't go out of their way to meet you has wasted their Steemfest trip.
We will meet soon enough even if that means getting you into the US for a week or two.
Man this comment hits hard at home, thanks for this. Definitely I have to get my Visa soon and visit all these amazing people I wouldn´t meet otherwise.
"The path of the clan father". I really hope to get there eventually man, I know youll have a lot of advices when I arrive to the clan :D
Well, since we do very small Christmas dinner in my family (ignoring most relatives due to various reasons), this will be a welcome change :P
As for writing, I will have you know writing on Steemit (about anything) is very much writing:P Do not contradict me, it is as writerly as any other writerly activity a writer might partake in :P So there.
Seriously though, what you're doing for this community is really great. You have a big heart <3
I guess we´ll find out, I promise it will feel like a big family dinner :D
Ok ok, experience has taught me to never contradict a woman so confident about what she is saying :) Thanks for this comment fellow writer :)
Congratulations for the person you are and for what you have in mind I love your values and performance in your life and in this network, blessings for you I am a little new and I have noticed that you are one of the best friends, since already following you and supporting you .
Puedo decir que me encantó esta frase:
Me encanta leer tus escritos, son inspiradores.
Es genial poder imaginar un mundo donde vivas el día a día, sin demasiadas decisiones, pero involucrado en proyectos sociales como los que eres colaborador.
Sinceramente te digo que eres un ejemplo a seguir como un usuario que aporta contenido de calidad a nuestra blockchain.
Saludos desde Venezuela, compa.
All I learned is you don't have a fannie pack. Then I realized I didn't know what is a fannie pack. Then I googled fannie pack. Now I know what is a fannie pack and I'm glad you don't have them. (Because, no, wearing them cross-body doesn't make it look cool! My father wore them on our summer holiday with his shorts and sock in sandals! They are NOT cool!)
;-)
Gotta get my writers fingers on for another post as well!
You should see some pics of me when I was younger, I was a boy scout and I used to have one... Not my best days If I have to be honest :P
I 100% agree with you, I should see those pics :P
Thank you for sticking around with community and this was a very smooth read so don't worry. :) Actually letting us know your current plans are great, as I and I'm sure many others don't go through your comments/upvotes history to see what you're up to xD
Also if Steemit is your main income, please don't starve yourself no matter what anyone says :P
Also treating yourself once in a while can be quite motivating ^^
Hey! What happened with the chill mexicano?!
Don't lose yourself, I know that your life isn't the easiest one but always search for that good part of the day.
You said you are doing what you feel, and for God sake that's what everyone should! In my opinion the brain is so stupid sometimes that it really makes you take some decisions that you are going to regret later.
You are a funny person which is going to entertain everyone on steem fest! Not a creep.
So keep you head up and don't lose yourself!
Hello friend, your work is admirable. We must all think as you might in the world have more noble and good people, greetings for you, a hug.
Hello friend and so it is always we must say or write what we feel is a great, good collaborative values among others. Very happy to follow you on this network, I have little time but following you and reading you. Claps for you.
Pensar en los otros es un gesto de grandes. Eres sin duda un chico excelente.
Saludos @anomadsoul
I would love to go to a stem fest. You have are very lucky. :)
I haven't been following you for that long but with this post I see that it was a right decision to follow your journey. And now I also know that I will try to postpone that surgery to get to the SteemFest to meet people like you!
Thank you for sharing a little bit more about yourself!
Word!
Working on my 'choices' #roadtosteemfest now...
It’s ok man...you can admit you rock the shit outta a fanny pack. It’s all good....
Oh damn you keep catching me in the act man!
When I do my conventions I need to use one for the money. I have this tremendously horrendous fanny pack that I won at a local fast food joint called Roy Rogers. It’s enbarassingly hideous and I love using it. I get a rush watching the strangers make faces as I make them change.
It’s somewhere between these...
When I was a boy scout I used to rock the shit out of mine, but it´s been a while since I used one :P
They are the worst...
Looking forward to meeting you at Steemfest. I'll be the one with the fanny pack. ;)
Amazing bro, I never had a material attachment but to think everything will fit in a backpack is quite unthinkable for me.
Staying true to yourself is not what many can do when they have "made it".
Great piece.
Espero que consigas lo que buscas, estés donde estés.
We all hope that steemfest will get a good impact on steem @anomadsoul but just continue with your efforts to help the steem community, you are a gem at steemit.
You got a 43.12% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @anomadsoul!
I'm kind of concerned about what kind of girlfriend you're thinking of if she's going to push you around a lot XD
Nothing wrong with fanny packs, they're light and useful and easy to move around and don't get in the way much. And I'm sure you'd rock one XP
Wow, this is a very detailed article and I will post my second entry today too.
Edit: Oh no, Im to late for the writers contenst "You have until Thursday, August 23, at MIDNIGHT EST" :(
You had me at 'fanny-pack' 😂 Fanny packs are worn by tourists, not die hard travelers... Week 4 already? Jeez, I better get on this too. I'm glad you are staying true to yourself, to be honest: I didn't expect anything else. And by the way, I like to see myself as a writer too. Even though people here have 'blogs' we're not just your average bloggers. But that's just my opinion. Now, there won't be much impressing the ladies when all ladies are writers. 😂😝 But not sure you'll need it at Steemfest 😉Last year I couldn't wait for the moment that Steemfest3 would be announced and this year I am more like: 'Wait, HOLD on! I have so much to DO to get there!' But trying to calm my mind, meditate if needed and just go with the flow and know it will happen. OK, enough bullshit, I'm ON it!
@anomadsoul, In my opinion, Life aspect is really dynamic and our thoughts always engage in an race to win towards other aspect. And our decisions changes as per our thought process.
But really great to know that, you've putting efforts in the Growth of the platform and eyeing towards the future and also spending 80% of your rewards into Giveaways.
And yes, sometimes we can loose our practice and that is because we are Humans and not Machines. But most important aspect is, we should remember our practice and should apply it once again if we lose the consistency.
And sometimes we should hear the voice of Inner self and by that i mean, sometimes we push one aspect so much and then there will be an time when our mind and soul will going to give an advice to slowdown.
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed. 🙂