RE: Lost my cool a bit and stopped self-upvoting a few days ago.
I'll not comment on the real message you are bringing, whether we are in time, too late or the honest truth about what it means 'draining the pool' etc. To be honest, I'm too much a newbie for that to state something sensible on that.
I know what you feel! For me it is up and down, from being very positive and focussing on creating good posts, finding good posts and engage with the authors and other commenters, to engagements of Steemit (chat, discord etc), to feeling negative and either stop interacting, creating posts or get myself some self curation rewards with the so many 3rd party self upvote services. Sometimes I think it is better to play along with the system, whatever becomes the new normal, adopt it as well, but I have kind of an issue with that since my ideology sits in the way with for instance gaming the system. Luckily since last week, I feel positive, so I continue on that note and hopefully my negative days are far ahead of me :)
Good you had a good weekend!
And apparantly all it takes is some anti-government statement in the title to get some heavy Steem Power {SP} backed upvotes.
I should do this with all my posts! :)
For me the bottom line is that it is a long term thing. And it will evolve over time. We can have fun, express ourselves freely, join with others. Focus on the things that make us feel good. While staying true to who we are. Because I know if I go against myself I feel unhappy and lose valuable energy, lust for life.
And I am glad that you feel positive! One thing that made my weekend good was the pleasure of meeting nice people in real life. The connection, the positive vibe, it was great, that is my focus that I would love to keep. :-)
Maybe we should disrupt the system a bit by posting with the word government in the title, hahaha.
Nah better not, that is going to attract flags too. ;-)
Have a great day!
What helps me to get positive is to stay away from Steemit for a week or so. Done that already a couple of times, needed it at those times to be honest :)
Real connections always is better then lala connections, even in chat I sometimes connect on a real level, but in p2p chat only, met some people I regularly chat with outside Steemit
That is indeed healthy, taking a step back now and then. ;-)
Indeed real contact is better.
Just like getting away from the screen and keyboard, hahaha.
So I'll be doing that in a while.