I am soooooo celebrating with you! Did you know we both started our Steem adventures in December of 2017, and we both decided within a few hours of each other to power up 1000 STEEM to become a Dolphin?! That's pretty much amazing, we're clearly walking about the same path here...
For me going to SteemFest 'made me excited to do it', the people are pretty much what will make this place amazing even years from now.
I do understand the mixed feelings, it's also pretty spectacular to earn your way 'up', but, it's also pretty random - who upvotes who isn't always saying much about how hard you work or that other person works... I believe buying at these prices is showing insight and indeed, you can measure it pretty much in 'months of work'.
Hope to see us both grow even more the coming year, congratulations, and get well soon!
Well, thank you. Just left a comment on your celebratory post. :)
I do remember us coming in more or less at the same time (I think you have a couple of weeks on me), and I also just recently went back to look at a few of my first posts. You were among the ones commenting on a couple of them, and among other things you said:
Well, who knew at that point that either of us would not only be making it to Minnow (from a plankton's perspective, a minnow might as well be a whale), but be writing posts within hours of each other announcing baby dolphin status?
Considering I felt like quitting half a dozen times between January 15 when you commented the above and now, I wouldn't have bet the farm on it.
That said, I guess we're both still here, and we're both doing what we can to advance and spread our upvote around.
I am feeling a little better this morning, so hopefully it will be all gone by tomorrow and Thanksgiving. :)
And I echo your sentiments for the new year. May we both grow even more in 2019, and may STEEM also grow. In value, in users, in notoriety, etc.
I think this is pretty cool and makes us pretty much Steem Siblings! What an adventure we took on, and how well we did :D
I'm glad you made it through the feelings of quitting multiple times. You now know how rewarding it is, but I hope we will find ways to tell baby Plankton they will make it too.
Hell yes! Happy thanksgiving to you!