Wow! What an awesome post. I love the story, the message and the evidence and support you provided. It helps to see the transparent walk through your steemit life and the fast forward to today as a big encouragement. Like you, I've been dabbling for some time. Opened my account in March but didn't start using steemit until June. Since June I've been interacting and trying to add value where I can and encourage people when it fits. I'm now up to 267 followers if my memory serves me correctly. And I was just given a big dose of hope that its possible to get to 3600 by simply continuing to do what I'm doing and writing a few articles on topics interesting to me and that can help others as well. Thank you Alex!
I'm resteeming this because everyone should read it!
thanks for the kind words, @morseke, and I'm glad you found the post so helpful and inspiring! :D