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RE: How to Save Steem

in #steem • 5 years ago

Good afternoon (here) @erh.germany, 😉 on a windy Fall day in the high country!

”that my readership - old and new - has thinned out very much.”While I can’t recall all of the instances, the one time most recently we engaged a little was on a post written by my dear Bulgarian friend @insight-out. She hasn’t written anything for a long time … As you say,

I can relate to this in your response …

”In a way this is a little frightening, but also fascinating. But it is difficult to find the right balance between distance and closeness here.”

… as I never had an online presence, prior to electing to “jump in” to the Steem blockchain. At the time, to do my small part to support “user adoption” of an investment I had made months earlier.

There is absolutely some fascination for me (like right now!) to be engaging with others all over the world. But … How ”real” is it? When the likelihood of ever meeting these people is so small? And short of meeting people in “real life,” what then am I doing? When I had a very full life, with lots of real people in it, before ever electing to “jump in” here …

I can relate to this as well …

”I would have had to muster far more energy to search for people who would visit my blog, as I did at the beginning of my time. I think a second approach, so committed, seems to me too much effort for a platform that seems to be "dying". But I can also be mistaken.”

… although my motivation would be very different this time. I was naïve before, but I could not say that now. So, it is still a bit of a quandry for me, as to what my future involvement is going to be. In some ways, I enjoy writing. More than I thought, since as an engineer, most consider us to be uhhh … “challenged” when it comes to written communication …

I will most likely continue to just write as I find the time. To maintain some contact. And to have a record, of sorts, of things that are of interest to me. Even though they may never have “many eyes” on them …

I’ll close this response for now saying (broken record, but it’s true …) that I relate to this also …

”… I am now turning to other things and a little bit loses the addiction to look in every hour.”

… since this has been my experience now for the last 4-5 months. Initially, I was agitated about the “loss” I was going to suffer of all the supposed momentum I had established up to that point. After months of a lot of hard work, with frankly very little to show for it … The key word for me is “addiction,” as I am personally very sensitive to it. The last thing I needed in my life was to become addicted to anything.

Well, a bit rambling for me, but still I wanted to get a response back to you promptly. I hope our “journeys” will continue to cross paths @erh.germany, from time to time. All the best to you, in your whatever choice of endeavors you make for you and your loved ones.

#sbi-skip