I agree with you completely @cryptoctopus.
Thank you for relating what I, too, have been saying. STEEM is only starting to move. My prediction is still $100 by year end. I am still trying to work out the user sign up rate but I am leaning towards at least 3M by year end.
We are in the very early stages. Blockchain is a revolutionary technology which is just starting to emerge. There is a good 10 year run before we see the total benefits of what is going to take place. In that time, we will see the abundance that comes from the Internet coming into the money arena. We also are going to see DAOs which will radically alter the idea of a corporation.
In the end, humanity is going to benefit and I feel that STEEM will be at the center of it all.
As for you being "lucky", horsecrap. There were a lot of lean days back then from what I read and there were many times which this entire "experiment" looked like it could collapse. Those who were willing to stay in there and keep at it, even putting their own money at risk, deserve to profit.
People who talk about those being lucky because they could get in when it was cheap are also the ones who fail to add more STEEM when it pulls back now. As you stated, by Spring, $6 STEEM will look cheap.