Steem Is Not Fair: But What Is In Life?

Sometimes I find myself browsing through the ol' Steem feed and find a familiar sensation rising from the pit of my stomach. It takes it a little while to bubble up to my brain, where I finally recognize it as big bad jealousy and envy.

Most of you probably know what I'm talking about. Perhaps you are going about your happy business, when you suddenly begin to notice a number of Steem members earning 20, 30, 40, even 50 or more dollars on every single thing that they post. Sometimes these folks are posting a poorly composed photo with maybe a sentence or two describing how awesome it is.

Before you know it, the emotions are building up inside of you and you have lost all perspective. You're likely feeling quite sorry for yourself at this point. You may think something like,

Come on! I spent hours collecting and processing images, thinking about what I would like to write, and then go over it again and again. After posting it, I get a max of 2 or 3 bucks for all of my effort.

I went through something like this recently. If you have followed me for any amount of time, then you've probably noticed that I've not made nearly as many of my epic travel posts like I used to do daily. In fact, recently I've kind of become one of those annoying Actifit guys.

Well, the reason is two-fold. One, I've been extremely busy with actual paying work! It always gets this way in the early months of the year. The other reason is that I have been sort of secretly sulking and whining to myself about how much work I felt that I was putting into the platform, but not getting much back. Especially since there are a lot of people who started around or after I did and are doing much, much better than myself. Not to say that they don't deserve it!

Actually I was getting plenty back

First of all, I have gotten to meet a lot of interesting people that I never would have come in contact with had I not joined the platform. Secondly, having bought a decent stake (I sure didn't build it up blogging) I was given the opportunity to help people less fortunate to raise a bit of money in countries where it would otherwise be impossible. Of course I mean by supporting their blog posts, and encouraging them.

It's All About Perspective

The most important thing that I had to come to terms with is that just like in real life, these platforms are all about building personal social networks. And just as in life, sometimes networking is being in the right place at the right time; meeting the right people. Oh, and of course getting the attention of the right people at the right time.

A lot of variables have to fall into place in order to make it into that elite group of people who are making an actual living from writing blog entries.

Also, there are plenty of people on here who don't even get $0.50 per post! Sometimes it takes quite a while to get a decent following. So stop whinging! (As my British wife would say)

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So your point is?

The point is simple and has been expressed over and over again on all of these blogging platforms. It is an easy one to forget, however, when the emotions take over.

Don't get into this thinking you are going to be some famous influencer. Do it because you enjoy it! Do it because you will certainly make a lot of new and interesting friends. Do it because you can earn a few bucks by writing about things that interest you. Where else can you do that?

It is easy get depressed about it all and completely lose the plot, but you have to keep the right mindset about it all. Not everyone is going to be a superstar blogger just like not everyone is going to be rich and famous.

The fact of the matter is, you'll never be happy anywhere unless you can be happy right where you are. That's something to think about!