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Giving is dead easy. To understand this fully you have to be a good translator. For instance, you can easily say; "time is dime" because in reality, it is possible to translate time into money. 

If the above is established as true, then everyone has something to give away; at the very least "their time". Now the pertinent question is; is the recipient of your time acknowledging your time as something precious as gem; and YOU, are you willing to give away your time?

Many times when giving turned out hard, it wasn't "the art of giving" that was hard; it was the "self-sacrifice" that was missing!

And receiving? Hahaha, it is not as easy as people think, to receive. It is an art! Again, you have to be a good translator! Haven't you found yourself question unnecessarily the intent of the GIVER? Ofcourse, if you didn't translate his intentions right, there is a tendency that you won't receive his gift! Also very possible, that you try to translate the gift into value and again there, you may translate wrong and feel that it is not worthy gift. Ultimately, self-sacrifice is also needed here, because it is not in every case that receiving is convenient!

Now how about giving a real money? How easy is that? "Dead easy".

We now  live in a world where steem exist and just if you have decided to explore steem and its facets to the fullest, you will have discovered that giving became dead easy, so why not give!

Just perhaps, we also become afraid that the recipient may not be a good translator?

Hahaha, regardless, give still!

Ultimately, when it comes to giving; it is more about the act.

 Sometimes, it may just be about the timelessness of it too. I tell you; your 2 cents can do me wonders and your millions can easily mean 2 cents to me depending on the timeliness of your gift.

Steem & Its Facets

Steem and its facets constitute a whole lot. Thus, gifts can take a ton of forms! One major facet of steem, that we tend to circumvent when it comes to gifts, is the steemit community. How powerful do you think the community backing steem is? According to me, it is the most powerful facet of steem.

Give me 10,000 true friends and i will rally them and will go and move and displace Mount Everest by 10km at 10km per hour!

So what forms of gifts can you give out courtesy of community? There is a ton of them really. There is #steemgigs ongoing, with steemians putting their expertise to use right within their blogpost! So how about talking to @sumsum for instance, to create you a beautiful upbuilding poem, to send as gift to some steemian who has been experiencing sadness or perhaps, talking to @elementm to do you a cover version of your friend's favorite song, so that you can surprise him or her with a new type of steem gifts. There is a ton of steem gifts out there beyond steem tokens and all that's need; is a little extra self-sacrifice and these, will become all the more obvious.

Flexing your creative muscles requires flexing!

Giving is dead easy! It is just that, giving does require a measure of self-sacrifice and that is where there is a learning curve and especially, when this self-sacrifice is on behalf of others! Steem help matters though. Now even without too much self-sacrifice on your part, you can develop a culture of giving. 

Even your blog is means to give out gifts, for you can upbuild by means of your words. You can save someone out there and even one who is non-steemian, by means of your blogs. 

So who is your target audience when you write? Do you only target the steemit audience or do you broaden your horizon a bit more because you want to GIVE?

Well, by means of our blogs, we manage to reshape the internet with out very own beauty. We also manage to fill up the search engines with answers to questions that people are constantly looking for answers to. So do we add some self-sacrifice to our steemit posts when we create them?

If the answer is Yes, we have managed to give too!

As for receiving: are we so hasty about deeming a steemit post as valueless or hasty about tearing the author down for spelling errors or for conflicting opinions? Well, self-sacrifice will help us be better receivers in this regard. We will be able to give room for a bit of compromise and sift these posts to still in it, gem!