One of the things that motivated me on this steemit is finding about how good earnings can be in the long term... I posted few posts and gone for months, when I returned I found that the $0.02 I earned became $3 or so... Decided to stick for a while...
And after I gained some friends like @jrhughes and @bex-dk I decided this would be my place for a while.... And here I'm STEEMING ON!!
I am amazed at how much power Steemit has given new people that join. We have new members and there votes are 0.01 now!
I wasn't really in for the money when I joined Steemit because I just liked blogging in general. I've kept a few Wordpress blogs but not even come to the level of earning there and so it was just like a virtual diary of sorts.
Yet here in Steemit it is indeed amazing that I could earn and as cliche as it sounds I stayed because of the community and have been helping out new people as well.
You are right STEEMING ON!