When I first joined the Steemit community, it was just to make some money mining Steem. Blogging didn't really appeal to me much, but with a little stake from mining I figured I could try making a little extra money by curating.
Then @dan dropped the bomb that curating was only for whales and little fish like me would never make any money at it and we should only concentrate on producing quality content that he and the other whales could ignore while they upvoted their friends. Oh and they discontinued Steem mining also. So I pretty much lost interest.
Last year, they changed to linear rewards and small stake holders could finally see a little return on their efforts. I got interested again and more active and started making some friends and getting involved in some communities. Now I'm heavily into Steem Monsters and really enjoying it.
I guess that's ultimately what I want to achieve in Steemit, to be involved in a community and have fun doing it. Oh, and earn some free Steem Monsters Booster Packs when I can.