"Thank You, Hive, For Being There."

It may seem too early to talk about a topic like this considering the time I joined Hive, which is only recent. But it would be a huge letdown if I didn't take this opportunity to reflect on the five months I've been active on Hive.

As I write, dear reader, you should know that I am completely oblivious to what it is I would like to ponder and write about. But I have chosen to not let my quill down and spread that ink to reflect my thoughts, emotions, and everything in between.

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You see, I joined Hive for no particular reason other than the fact that I recognized that I had to at least take a step to show appreciation for the incredible individual that had spared his night to tell me about a land where potentialities were explored, a land where the impossible could be manifested, a land where there was beauty, intelligence, and ingenuity in the form of homo sapiens, all co-existing in a space with different aspirations, yet with one general purpose—to grow. This land, space, community, environment, call it whatever, is our beloved Hive blockchain.

Permit me to write in this manner, which is somewhat unusual for me. Like I said, I have no exact bearing as to where I would like to land, but I do know where I am headed. I'm about to tell you a long story about what this space has meant to me, especially in the last few months.

It is a delicate story of mine, but hey, it will be a form of encouragement when I read this in many years to come. So, let's go!

I play the guitar, and that's what this individual I wanted to pay a token of appreciation to only knew about me. And he believed that this young man, me, possessed some potential that he could share on Hive and earn incentives for. I had not told him anything, like I needed a way to make money. He had barely even known me at that time. He is only passionate about sharing the good things he enjoys because, to him, life is not meant to be as hard as hurling things at ourselves for our own benefit alone.

That's how I landed here. He had created my account on the 15th of February, 2022, but it took me a little over two months to make my introductory post. I only made the introductory post so as to not seem like I did not even try to make an effort, considering the time he had invested in enlightening me about it. I had little idea that the environment I found by serendipity would be the one to see me through a rough patch I went through.

You see, I had been smelling some sort of financial instability in my life, even with my family, but I only thought it to be one of those, you know, bumps on the road. But it went way beyond that.

There are way more things that Hive has helped me with, which I have talked about several times, but this time I will be sharing how Hive has been there for my humble family. I may as well share the other things later on.

There would never be a better time to join Hive (or take it seriously) than the time I did.

Never had I ever thought that my family would be without money for so long as we had been. It is not that we had become proud, but it really was not something we would have ever envisaged.

This was the same period I was under the onboarding program by OCD, through @starstrings01, the "individual" that brought me onto Hive. He has now become my brother, and we are doing great things together now.

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During this period, I was going to have some kind of "visibility" with OCD as per being onboarded by them. This meant that I had some kind of assurance that my posts would be curated provided they met the criteria. All I had to do on my part was to create original and quality content and do quality engagement.

I took every piece of advice @starstrings01 gave me very seriously, and I was lucky to have had the majority of my posts curated really nicely. This allowed me to make some money every week and convert it to our local currency. And with everything I made, I sent it to the family head to get us by.

I continued weeks in and out, pushing content, mostly film reviews, just to make something for us to survive on. It was all we had for a very long time.

Many times it gets really hard. I had not been a writer, blogger, movie critic, meme maker, or even "engager" in any way before joining Hive. But I had to learn on the job just to make ends meet.

Believe me, what I earned was not all that sustainable, but it did go a long way towards being just sufficient to survive with. We had each other, and we were together in it, so it made it all the more bearable.

This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of everything, but you can see how Hive came through for me. And this is just the beginning with Hive and I. There are many stories I will still tell in the future.

Other than being a platform that has been of much financial benefit to me, it has been a space that has allowed me to grow so much in the endeavors that I have been dabbling in. It is all the more beautiful because of the wonderful people that I have come to meet on this platform.

So, that's a wrap on how it has been for me in the past couple of months, and how Hive has been there for me.