I have no idea what's going on - that towel from South Park
Hi.
I'm @edumurphy and I have no idea what I am doing. Two months ago, I was out of money and heartily sick of ponzi schemes and MLMs and matrixes. I stumbled across mention of Steemit in an ESUT WhatsApp group. Next thing I knew, I was in a group with the people who would eventually become @madmaxfury, @voski and @ememovic. It was a bit like being sucked into a wormhole.
Two months later and Steemit is my internet. When I browse, it's to find out stuff for a Steemit post. When I go on Instagram, it's to look at cool pics that might look good in a Steemit post.
Things are getting weird in a good way as I find myself in community after community, swept along in a deluge of fun and seriousness. Serious fun. Because hell yeah we like the money!
Yet the community, the we're-all-this-together camaradrie, is like nothing I have ever felt online. The likes of @misterakpan and @dante31 and @discordiant and @ajremy the teen with steam for Steem ... they've made this place more than just a side gig. They've made it a true online home for people from my part of the world and I couldn't love them any more for it.
... I have failed at so many things. In that vein, Steemit feels like ... like coming home. It is the place my entire life has been preparing me for (my encyclopediac knowledge of Hollywood action movies and 90s-to-mid-00s-video-games, the hopeless internet addiction, the reading Frederick-Forsyth's-Dogs-of-War and the entire Christian Bible in primary 3 (or maybe it was 4? 💭)
HAVE I MENTIONED THAT ONE DAY WHEN I AM A WHALE THAT I WILL MAKE THE NOPICTURES TAG HAPPEN? BECAUSE YEAH, I'M GOING TO DO THAT.
I said once that Steemit is the best way of turning literacy into lucre that currently exists. You apply mind to matter and money falls out. Of course, without heart and soul, it won't be a lot of money.
More importantly, no one will care -- unless you do. Until you do.
This has been a cynically rambling yet hopefully yearning entry for @surpassinggoogle's Steemit's Untalented Contest. Still don't know what it's about but I like it, I like him and I especially like @greenrun so I'm winging it like a mofo anyway
PS
Did you learn anything from this? My battery's on 13% and I am like 3/4 asleep right now so Idunno how coherent any of ... all that was. Steemit is a place without lies which means it must therefore be a place of forgiveness. So forgive these trespasses against good writing and common sense; we know not what we don't do.
Boss, I'm reporting to duty. You are born to do this. Never stop writing.
Recharged this morning in both body and battery and this is what I get? A surprise $13 bucks?
Nice!
Moral of the story: always post when your battery is low :)
Heh. The mix of desperation and NEPA-hatred lends speed to the fingers and a brutal manic clarity to the mind lol
You are a typical example of a guy that delivers under pressure
I think I love you.
Haha this post has just the right mix of nerdishness and love of finding self in an online forum!!
Get that whale title!! 🐳
Thanks for your lovely (and loving?) comment, @annamarieisms (and boy, that's a cool name!)
Nerdishness and finding oneself? If that isn't a perfect description of the Steemit experience, I don't know what is 😁
You either die Captain Ahab or you live to see yourself become Moby Dick. Yarr! 😂
That last line 😂😂
I might have to go back and read that book again.
I don't know why but I had a feeling you'd like that 😁
🤷🏼♀️💁🏼
dude, you are half asleep and people of the internet are loving you, come and take nokia charger and boost up, nice shot mate! cheers
Lol, just got up and saw these. Exciting! Of course in my infinite greed, I could use an extra move of the decimal point (to the right of course hahaha) but this is still very good. Glad y'all liked it 👌👍
Yes o, Steemit is the way forward, no retreat no surrender.
Hell yeah! Forward ever, backward never, ahead-ahead 😁👍👌
Na Steemit be am
Following you immediately. Please forgive us our trespasses too for I assure you mine are greater.
Will be back
great write up friend, and when you do become a whale and make the nopicture tag happen i will be in support, findin the right picture(s) for a post is sometimes more task than writing the post
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Terbaek, nice @edumurphy
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STOPGive some time Everything will be fine. Your post is very good. You keep your thoughts even further.
Thanks much for the response 👍
hahahha. i'm having fun reading this! you're awesome! hahaha. *crowning you now with the whale title. hahaha
I graciously accept ... even if my wallet says minnow 😁😂
Don't worry, your rambling is cute.
Steemit says ndeewo.
Tell Steemit say I dey hail them, say na dem be my oga ooooo 🙌🙌🙌
Haaaaahaaahaaaa. Beautiful @edumurphy
Thanks much 👍
Imagine what you can come up to when your'e fully awake and with at least 75% battery.
Great and coherent post!
Thanks for the confidence. I hope to live up to it as we all rise together 👍
I wish I had more power to upvote or that even more power would allow me to upvote twice. I can't so I'm gonna let others see and do it. You're altogether awesome.
Sorry for the late reply. Data issues for the past couple days. I very much appreciate all your comments 👍
Nice.. Now I know when best to write. Lol
Hehehehe -- I suspect that was a flash in the pan as they say. Being well-rested and well-focused is almost always better 😁
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Nice one boss,keep it up and never slack in it. I must say its actually your calling to write
Enjoyed every bit of it. Nice work bro