Thank You For The Win @bunnypuncher

So challenge myself?
That has been my entire journey on Steemit, let me start from the beginning. I found steemit looking for a distraction from loosing a soulmate, R.I.P. Tristan Watterworth. I started researching crypto after asking (My higher self? God? The universe?) for a direction to go in. That night a friend asked me to find some files on my old server for our gaming community on CounterStrike Source (he wanted the races we coded for WCS Mod) I stumbled across the wallet address I had for click adds paid in BTC, yea that was a thing. Finding myself slapped in the face by not being more proactive over the years in crypto (I did get in early but lost the key for that wallet, controlled by third party) I took that as a sign, I started investigating the crypto space all over again. At that time I was investing a lot of time and effort into trying to save lost souls and seemingly losing the battle each time. My buddy Tristan was a writer though never published so combine that with my interest in crypto when I discovered steem was not mineable I was intrigued to say the least. Quickly I discovered I needed to do an intro post, and the pain I was holding was just bleeding out of me. I embraced the challenge in the name of honouring my late buddy and started writing and I let it all pour out. This has been a very therapeutic experience for me and has evolved into a passion I would have never known without Tristan‘s as inspiration. He told me several times I should be comedic writer and asked if I would look over his work though I never had the chance to.

Very quickly I found a path in helping others on this platform in the same way I had been trying in life but here there is no win and lose only win and try harder! This evolved into the entire #OneLoveDTube community through one single comment by @DNews inspiring me to collaborate with him, he is a mentor to me and I was honoured when he accepted. To get to that point I first had to learn about the platform, @gasparcha my first friend on Steemit and still a loyal companion helped in so many ways. He and I were caught in a whale war, both having our reputations destroyed. He engaged the war while I respectfully bowed out. About the same time I started vlogging and received my first @DTube vote restoring my rep almost completely, now understanding how reputation works I wanted to do the same for @gasparcha. I started voting all his posts and comments to help him but it was very tedious and time consuming and I work 2 jobs with limited time so I started to investigate autovoting. Found steemauto then well the rest is a story of success after success after success and now I am not only a founder of @OneLoveDTube but also a @Partiko Partner. The most recent challenge was to see if I could win that Partiko Partnership while simultaneously improving my image editing skills and expanding my ability to incorporate as many different angles into each post.

I started not knowing where I was going, I still don’t know where I’m going, but I know challenging myself is the key to my success! Leading by example for others to learn from along the way is my contribution to Steemit “if I can do it so can you!”

We Will Get There Together

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