Steemit Birthday: 9 years

Hello my dear Steemians,
Just recently I came across of the post of Xpilar where he mentioned that he is 10 years on Steemit, I was surprised to see that because for me it did not feel so long.
I remember that we joined Steemit one year later in 2017 and that is to my surprise makes 9 years on Steemit.
Actually with 9 years the child is almost turning slowly in grown up, what is with us and Steemit. The good thing is Steemit is still existing and actually majority of peopple who were here before are still there and that many just continue to be active.
Throughout the years there was many transformation in both on Steemit platform and in our own life, I remember we were very active both myself and myskye on Steemit, spending at least 3-4 hours daily without weekend, slowly we noticed that with that we are not able to do much in real life the time goes but we still behind of what we were planning to do.
Of course, initially the idea was to grow with Steem Power and later to use it for our renovation, it is still ongoing and requires a lot of finance. Understandably the good exchange rate of Steem would solve the expenses issues for us, but instead of our investment despite of growing started to melt in its value.
We just decided to re-distribute our time and use it in the case of my hubby for active finishing of our renovation (still it might take min 2 years, fingers crossed) and for me I am taking more extra shifts in hospital and you can imagine that I am after such work just tired and that is a secret behind of us spending less time on Steemit.
As a human being we need to have a dream, we need to have a light at the end of tunnel. A person without dream will fade away. Only a dream is a driving Power for us, we still have a hope that there will be positive good Future for Steemians.
There are obvious positive sides of Steemit platform:
Steem is a real cryptocurrency
there are many evidences how many of Steemian benefited from Steem, that they earned through being active
Steem, can be earned by being active on Steemit platform and it is a real! There is no fraud and it is a real chances for anyone to become well known and to reach a lot.
Recently there are noticeable new development of programs, alternative interfaces and ability to insert videos in its easy way into our post! That is great!
what I like the most last few days that there was a positive news on Cryptomarket, The US Treasury announced it will double the maximum size of its long-term bond buyback operations from $2 billion to $4 billion per session. That made Bitcoin to go up and that is also pulled other Cryptos together up. I assume that also made Steem to slowly climb up too.
What I like is this picture of positive growth:


Congratulations on 9 years on Steem !
Thank you very much for congratulation! It is also a lot that we achieved was the support of Steemit Team of all our activities including our participation in Engagement challenges hosting art contests as Wox-community and the multiple times carying our Curator role that we used to support, motivate and retain many users :)
لندعم بعضن البعض
En mi experiencia, esos 9 años en Steemit se sienten como la renovación de tu casa que, según mencionas, tomará al menos 2 años.
What I learned is that keeping a dream as a driving power helps us stay focused despite the long hours.
There is always should be a goal that we set when we start up somehting new and also it should be clear for a person that nothing is given for free, we always can work hard to reach what we want to reach and just hte goals should be small because it is then easy to reach them, it is like to have many little happy moments :)
Congratulations! You've been on Steemit for many years! ...I love the opening image of your post. Regarding the price of Steem, as you explain at the end, the price of BTC and its external influences always give Steem's price a boost.... Let's hope the increase is reflected gradually; we're used to it by now. Patience and perseverance are what this market requires. Have a happy Sunday!
Thank you! Yes, slowly growing up and heading to "teenage" years on Steemit. I also love the first image, looks cool!
We also only hope that eveyrhting slowly will get better, it was long 2 years of such long low, actually since Trump entered his Presidency.
Congratulations on 9 years on Steemit!
Thank you :)
Mi vivencia ha estado llena de altibajos 📈📉📈. También he aprendido mucho de este mundo y he ganado con las recompensas. Espero que este cambio, con las criptomonedas nos beneficie
Unamos las manos 🙏🏽 para que todo vaya bien.
Yes, life is life, but what I like is that you run few engagement challenges and despite of busy time managed to be active and engaged. Wishing you be strong and hope that we will benefit from strong Steem!
Amen, amen, amen. It's gone up a little. Today 0.044 USD 🤩📈
Wow 9 year long time
Thank you!
welcome
Staying on one platform for nine years is no easy feat.
Yes, you are right and it is regular work too :)