I realized quite some time ago that I really do this more for myself than anything. I mean sure, when you are able to get those upvotes that is awesome, but even when I wasn't getting them, I was still doing this. Kind of like that Luke Combs song. I'd still be doing this if I wasn't doing this. I used to journal quite a bit when I was younger. I got out of that habit, but then Hive kind of drug me back into it. Sure, I don't get as personal as I did in those journals, but I still try to be myself. Goofy, nerdy, weird, dry sense of humor and all. I'm pretty proud of what I have created here over the past five or six years.
You've got the right idea, and it's the same as mine really. I'll be me. You be you. Other people be other people...it seems like a fairly straightforward forward thing. I think it's very clear when someone is "performing" for votes.
I wrote a lot of the blockchain, things that will never be posted here, and I get value from it even knowing no one will read it. Some of my best work is there. Ok with it, maybe my niece and nephew will read it when I'm gone.
Thanks for commenting, and for being real.
For sure! I can't really think of any other way to be. Oddly enough though, I have a feeling if you met me in real life you might think I was being fake in my interactions here. Really it's just that I am more comfortable behind a keyboard than in person. Which I can see how some might feel that is fake. I don't though.
I get that, understand it I mean.
I'm quite shy in real life, interesting considering my professional career now...where that wouldn't work. I hide behind my job though, when there, meaning I get paid to do what I do so I do it. In my personal life, I'm much more selective with who I spend time with and how I socialise. I keep a small and close-knit group around me rather than multitudes.
Same.