About bloody time too as in roughly about a week, I have my third cake day (created - 2017-07-02T05:49:09).
Not too impressive, I have to admit.
What happened with my progress?
Well.. where to start.
Not counting my two cash-grabs -
https://images.hive.blog/DQmbykGLvSvZRJoN27VAF51bT8tYeLUiZoWXx81CYnwi21V/image.png
My ability to command attention has been.. inconsistent, at best.
End of 2017 and beginning of 2018 - those were the days though! The dream was real. Engagement in discord communities - diligent. And the day to day 9-5 job - hanging by the thread due to my split focus.
I was sooo into it all I even threw a contest..
Throw in a costly hobby in the hype-mix and a bad decision was made.
To my defense, I did not power down what I thought would have been much at that time and I did really believe I could earn it back in no time, given enough work, patience, creativity and dedication. My aim was in no way to drain the system - it was merely to support a hobby by another hobby.
Little did I know at the time.
Tried posting regularly - that didn't go anywhere. Lost all my fellow red-fish/minnow school that I was supposed to grow up with due to the "recession", or however you'd call it.
PC broke down
Started a gradual redemption arc at nine-to-five work.
After an emotional burn-out..
..gave up all distractions - dances, everything - and gave that redemption arc all I had. Work was greedy. Took everything and then some.
8 months go by.
And then our team at work decided to take up a no sugar challenge.
And I just so happened to have a place where to document my experience.
My intention wasn't really to come back full force or anything.. yet, post by post, I kind of started to remember why I liked it in the first place. Realized I had missed that part of self-expression for the sake of it.
Now - post-Hive - a sense of excitement has returned. What if I can still grow? An HBD powerup and what's left of some liquid steem transfer later - a minnow!
In all fairness, payouts don't really matter to me. My only wish is I could get back at least a cent for an upvote, as my dust upvotes are just .. sad sad.
Eh, I mean, a journey is a journey and it's all good - I mean I could have ended up with all the other fishbones for all I know.
Hugs & Coffee,
~Josie~