How I joined steemit [12]

Everything will end here, this is the twelfth and final episode of the story. Previously I talked about how I started posting by myself but for the first time of posting alone I forgot to make my write up to have paragraphs. I was corrected and I understand everything faster after making some other research too. Now I was finally able to create other posts as well but there was no reasonable votes.

I gave up for 7 days, I could remember I went to my mentor's house on that 7th day and I was complaining about support, he checked my profile and saw that I was active 7 days ago, he wasn't happy at all so he adviced me to be active again, of I continue to be inactive how will they know that am serious. It wasn't easy but I forced myself to be active. I started posting again even as the votes weren't coming in as much as I expected before joining the platform.

In the month of August, 2022 my mentor powered down and I was surprised, I wasn't happy with his decision and I wasn't even up to a year old or even 6 months old in steemit he powered down. He wasn't really happy with the way the steemit platform is but he promised to keep on teaching and advising. Now I was all alone in this huge platform, no friends at all, nobody to talk to outside steemit. All I was doing was observing posts of steemians who were getting votes to know where my mistake was coming from.

No one knew me at all in steemit, I don't think up to 80% of steemians cared about my existence here that year. In September I became more serious but I dropped a bit in November after I started learning a physical skill. I became more serious again in the beginning of 2023 despite the fact that I was learning a skill, I was just doing my blogging in the midnight and I will wake up early to the barbing salon, each time there's no customer I fall asleep. This happened till February 8 2023.

I don't forget dates, my phone got stolen that day and I was helpless, I thought it was a dream. Despite that I didn't power down at all. If you read this story from the first episode you will understand what I went through just to buy that phone,all the labour and starvation just to buy that phone and one person just decided to steal it, taking my happiness away from me. I believe God won't take it likely with that thief. I was devasted and depressed and speechless for days, it didn't stop me from blogging, I started using my mum's phone.

I was surprised she even allowed me to use it in midnights too. February 21st I bought a new phone with my steem, I didn't touch/power down my steem power. I bought the phone through easy buy (paid half of it's price first) I started working harder in steemit so that I can raise 78 steem for 3 months each to pay for the rest of my new itel phone which is what am still using till now, currently the phone has been making my work very slow as is now old.

That time steem wasn't up to $0.18 I was getting small small support but I was somehow not in a club anymore just to meet up. I worked so hard until I became a moderator in October 2024 and my growth increased, became a moderator in December that same year and my mentor was impressed but never agreed to come back to steemit. February 15th 2024, I became a dolphin for the first time. These are all accurate dates of memorable days I can't forget till I die. It was supposed to be 14th but that was Valentine's day, I didn't want to achieve that dolphin on that day.

Alot kept on happening and happening and happening, no support sometimes but I kept on pushing, financial responsibilities increased at home and I wasn't even enjoying anything from my labour all the time again. Temptations here and there and I fell into one unfortunately. Here I am today making research and treating my wounds so that I can bounce back stronger and be one of the best. Thanks for reading, if you were reading from episode one and I notice, I will never forget you, I promise.