RE: $200 Monthly Investing Plan Brought to You by Hive Blockchain
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When I say "good", I mean, like super hard hitting, human stories. I read this article about a man who had been on iron lung for half a century.
I read that story years ago. I still remember it. I still hold it up as a piece of formidable writing and storytelling.
I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it on hive. If there is, please point me in that direction.
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Yep, no one on Hive is what I'd call a "good writer" even despite them wanting to believe they are; but there's some good people who write.
I think it goes beyond being a good writer or a good person. People are either good at expressing themselves, or not. People are either good at engaging in discussion and discourse, or they're not.
The underlying issue is that we have a lot of people on all of those spectrums with all sorts of ... dare I say ... confidence or aggrandising qualities which clash with their desire to express themselves or to confidently take a different view from another.
At times, I feel that there are certainly cargo cults on hive, waiting for the "Aid drop" (the upvote), circling those with large stake in order to nab a piece of the pie for themselves.
Strategic, ulterior, unwritten motives - but easy enough to see through. It is non genuine engagement, and I see you get a ton of it.
At the same time, people are too afraid to step on someone else's toes. If you disagree with something someone says, that's okay. Just do it with respect and decorum, but without it being said, no one knows what needs to change.
Having said that - change (and what direction that change takes us in) - is not commonly the outcome of a single actor. We collectively shift our views as our society changes those views. Or, we resist. I just want to see capital q quality like we see capital a art. I am also happy with seeing memes and discussing the banal and absurd.
I just want hive, and all of its genuine users and enthusiasts to succeed, and its my view that just one way we can get on the "map" is through having quality that is irrefutable.
As you say, (and I'm paraphrasing) you have to make your own destiny.
I want our shared destinies to be some sort of utopian HIVE land where no matter what we do, we are brilliant at it.
People have it within their power to make what they want to happen happen, as long as it's actually achievable in the first place. I think that goes for Hive and everywhere else. The problem is that most people are lazy, want to cut corners and defer to their sense of entitlement which is rarely going to gain optimal results. Or they have very unrealistic ideas of what's possible and that's also going lead them down the gurgler.
Where I come from, we call unrealistic ideas ambition! :P
But those unrealistic ideas don't become reality until hard work (or good work) is done.
Let's say I had the idea to become a London bus...sort of unrealistic right? So, let's say someone wants to be a billionaire but does nothing at all to make it happen...an unrealistic goal.
Like you say, hard work has to happen first.
Interestingly, I wrote a post tonight about being hard working. Well, maybe not interesting to you as you can't find any posts to like on Hive, but I find it interesting, coincidental that the comment thread moved towards hard work.
Perhaps I can rephrase. I haven't read many posts that have stuck with me for years. One of yours, of course, does - the one about napkins being underneath the food product, as it happened to us :P
The news that @lauralemons was no longer on Earth with us was another such post.
Several of the conversations I've had with @strega.azure were things that I liked, and liked a lot.
I have had my own issues with consistency on HIVE. I've had periods where I've worked hard, and others where I've just posted replays of my twitch streams. As I've aged the projection of myself and the value that my vanity (what little of it it there is) - comes to realise that I am more satisfied (and better able) to sleep at night, If I commit the most amount effort I can to everything I do.
That doesn't stop me from being shit, though :P
Haha, yeah I'm permanently scarred by the under-food napkin thing.
I think, and this is what I've done, the way forward is to make Hive fun not a job. I write and post for myself and if people don't like it, or if they do, doesn't diminish or augment my enjoyment of having written the post. Sure, I like it when people engage and get involved with my posts but it's the writing of it that matters to me...after I click post the rest is up to others.
Me too! I do this for me. I write my tirades and ramblings because it helps me cope with existing. Sometimes I try to make it profound. Other times, I do it to help me understand.
Interaction with others is also a reason I do it, because I want to seek feedback on said ramblings or self-doubts. (I've decided that I want to write an anthology of the short story ideas floating in my head) - and if its good, great, but am I expecting a movie deal and a book deal?
But is it okay for it to be an ambition? For me?
But the only way I'll ever get close is by doing the hard work :)
Also, I noticed that probably about ten minutes ago you surpassed 105k comments / posts on HIVE. Comparison is the thief of joy, but at a mere 11k myself, I can confidently say that you've gotten almost 10x more enjoyment out of hive than me :P
Releasing the "job" that many make Hive is the way to go for sure, brings a lot more enjoyment. It relieves the pressure that can build (similar to having a wank) and things just happen more easily.
I've done 105,000 comments? That's a lot I guess, but it's another enjoyment factor just like we're doing here...engaging. Of course, it's easier that we've met personally but I have some really great relationships and I think that's another element that's pivotal to an enjoyable experience here. Genuine relationshipa.
Integrity helps. You've got it in droves.
Grazie mille.
This is the longest discussion thread that I have ever had on one of my posts :) And yes writing about what I like and am interested in helps me stay consistent. If I approached it from the "Its a job" mindset I would not have lasted a month :)
Indeed, it's worked for me.