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RE: BTC Holder: Have You Claimed Your Stellar Lumens Yet? August 27th Deadline Approaches
The conflict you feel, perhaps, is conflict with yourself. You can say it's taking you away from the lifestyle you love, but the reality is you are choosing connection, relationship, and interaction. You are choosing by your actions to be here. Steemit bridges the gap between digital and physical and causes us to see ourselves and others in a different light.
I think it's amazing and fantastic.
If we have to set limits for ourselves it may be because we are trying to escape something about ourselves, and we know that isn't right or healthy. Balance brings peace.
Keep in touch and don't get lost in the crowd. :)
Exactly Luke. You read me like a book. It's totally an internal conflict.....Steemit is great and the more I understand it and build relationships on here the more I like it.
I have always had a hard time balancing my life. Hence the travel travel travel, work, work, work, and play, play, play.....very little balance. But I love to travel,I find it a healthy habit for me. For me to balance that with steemit now, is a challenge I am working on.
But I agree with you totally steemit is "amazing and fantastic". I wouldn't say that I'm trying to escape anything, I just have an addictive personality.....it throws me off, as I find myself getting addicted to steemit and the hours fly by. I love to be on steemit, and enjoy it very much.
The times I've gotten frustrated are the times I've steemed it too much! Then I'm like uggh where did all that time go, then I'm like well, at least I'm getting paid to be on here...then I see it's like 50 cents... (not anymore)....I'm like what am doing?
But I'm getting way way better at managing my time on here. And if I'm on here all day now....well I'm going to own that decision and be on here all day because that's what I want to do.
Balance brings peace, like you said. I'm very happy to have met you on here and I'll always keep in touch with you! Thanks for your friendship and more! -Dan
I'm curious about this. I've watched some interesting lectures about addiction, and I think we all have a lot to learn about it. Some think it's chemical based, but it does seem to be related to wanting to escape one reality and over-indulge in another. I also wonder if we'll ever understand the brain enough to really pinpoint how different brains may respond differently to pleasure and stimulation. All super interesting stuff.
I'm enjoying connecting wth you as well, Dan. I plan to travel much more in the future, hopefully with my family as well. Part of me, I realize, is scared of the unknown, scared of instability and uncertainty of travel... but I'm looking forward to it just the same. I enjoy your posts as part of that process.