A long time ago, being ranked 70 on Hive was a big deal, at least for me. It meant one is an OG. While in those days, accounts with a reputation of 70 were often owned by whales, it was the feeling of being among those whose opinions hold sway that really captivated me about reputations here.
Reputation is important. It has as much value here as it has in real life. I have seen accounts with huge amounts of HP down voted to a negative reputation during the often different conflagrations that occur here. While these down votes are often necessary and satisfy the crime, that they affected mostly the account's reputation speaks to how important reputation is.
I used to celebrate my increase in reputation. In fact, back on steemit, I celebrated almost every experience I had then. Maybe it was the novelty of it, of a space that allowed me free reign to my expression, my language. Maybe it was the surprise of the financial impact the space was having on my life. I do know that this space was a celebration for me. It was my home. A safe space to be. I wrote stories that I have not been able to replicate ever since.
I think this is the saddest part of my evolution. I don't give enough props to the hive community in the ways and means with which they emboldened me to write the way I wrote. It is the freedom I found here that has made it difficult for me to conform to accepted notions of what good writing should look like. I am thankful for the lesson. This space was my first writing laboratory and it was from here I developed the aesthetics and simple foundation of all my writing; the deeply interior quality of life, the dark inner world. Without hive, I am not sure I would ever have been able to achieve this.
As a result, I have a reputation for being a good creative writer. I am seen. Achieving the big 70 is therefore an icing on the cake. While my wallet doesn't have the millions, I have in my own little way, however sparse my presence, contributed to the fostering of a creative community that bypasses structures of race, ethnicity, religion, class, politics, gender and whatever bias the human brain can think of. I have given people here something to think about, over and over again. I am glad.
So as a writer with a 70 reputation, I say thank you my dear friends for your love, participation and constant acceptance of my life. I thank you even as I come to realize that this is a process. I am still unveiling, becoming. Hopefully, one day, I will fully unveil and that day, I will fly.
📸: Techno Pova Neo
Congrats!
I love your work!
I also have similar feelings of gratitude to the community, or most of it anyway.
Oooh @owasco !! It's been a minute eh? Yeah I can understand the part about most of it. There are aspects that are not so great but we create nevertheless. How have you been?
Busy! I've decided to become a bonafide homeopath, a grueling endeavor, but very compelling. I have very little patience for all the work that goes into making a post here, and need that time for studying. History, philosophy, scince and math. I feel like I am in my twenties again, intellectually. All good, very very good!
I want call what I have been doing studying but I have been reading a lot of poetry as well as philosophy. It's intentional though, building my knowledge of poetry and the world of ideas.
I like you saying studying makes you feel like you're in your twenties again. I can relate to that. What books of philosophy are you reading now?
All stuff relating to homeopathy. Samuel Hahnemann's Organon, a weighty dissertation by my teacher, and history of homeopathy going back to Hippocrates, who was the first known doctor to see that like could cure like. All tied into the philosophical notions of that time. What's really fascinating to me is that the times Hahnemann lived and worked in (late 1700s early 1800s) are very much like our times now, both medically and politically. Conventional medicine that did far more harm than good and worked hard to snuff out any modes of healing that did work, war worldwide, revolutions, fascism. I believe we are living under fascism right now, and have been for a very long time, but cannot recognize it because no heads are rolling, and that we are slaves but can't recognize that because there are no chains on our ankles and whips at our backs.
Oooh homeopathy sounds like an interesting focus. I agree with you about the state of the world rn, politically and otherwise. I think we are more or less numb and also distracted. The advent of social media is the greatest invention of the world. Every addiction and vice can be gotten and with our eyes stitched to the screen, the higher ups, governments and corporations can get away with murder. Nowadays, we just rant then return to tiktok dance videos or gossip.
I am doing some reading on philosophy myself but my focus is mainly art and writing. I just started reading Maritain's works and Kafka as well. Still avidly gorging on Rilke's poems as well. The aim is to not only build my craft but to also grasp the truth of this life if that's possible.
Welcome to the 70’s club! lol, just got here myself.
I know what your saying, I remember looking at the people in the 70’s and it felt so far away.
I also remember hitting 60 and feeling it was worth celebrating over, I even made a silly video about it at the time.
Good to have you still around creating! May your 70’s be as fruitful as your 60’s! 🤟✊
Thanks man! It's been a long time coming. 😂 On the 60's video. I am surprised to find myself missing those years. Hive is Goated!!
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