Once again what a wonderful thing you are doing for me today by telling me about @papa-pepper and @rebeccaryan and what they did for you in the past. You @sighmanjestah will be one of my "@papa-pepper's and @rebeccaryan's" in my future stories about who inspired me when I was new. I can't believe you have taken the time today to not only give me some inspiring insight, but you now give me a heads-up on how to navigate the system (both pluses and minuses)...
I am very enthusiastic about the platform and the potential to truly change people's lives, but I am also aware that many people in life will try to take advantage of people's natural naivety and kindness. While I'm sorry to hear about what happened to you, I'm glad to see that you persevered and overcame it. I will keep your story now in the back of my mind and be careful to mention to others to do the same.
As to your wife, I would be happy to help her in any way I can. I speak relatively plainly so I'm used to helping people just starting. Plus I'm learning as I go so people also get the benefit of knowing I just learned it too. So if I can help her, encourage her to ask me anything and I will address her questions directly. Just tell her to tag me in any comment and I'll catch up to her when I go through my replies (which I do first before I do anything else). :)
Finally I will definitely go through the video from @papa-pepper and read the link you sent me. I am still learning new things every day and realize that many know more than me. I think the value of my role here is not in my artistic abilities (which I have none), but in my ability to have the patience to help everyone (particularly the new ones) and my desire to do my part to make steemit a place that can truly change people's lives. I have seen much in my life and experienced lots of wonderful things, so at a minimum I would like to see many of the poorer people in the world have a chance to have a decent life. I think this could be such a place to give them that opportunity.
Thank you again so much for your reaching out to me... If there is anything I can do for you please let me know. I'm so happy you found me and I hope you have a fantastic and wonderful day! :)
ps... if you could tell your wife to tell me who she is when she's ready, I will give her encouragement to contact me anytime.
My wife is @lildebbiecakes she posted just below your last post to me.
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awesome, and again thank you for making the connection to me!