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Hello Everyone and greetings to Steem Venezuela Community. I am happy to make my first post here in this community. I plan to take part in other contests too. This week I was extremely ill due to sleepless nights over the past 4-5 days :p

I am here to participate in the contest arranged by Steem Venezuela Community. I assume you all know me as The Country Representative of Pakistan, Admin of Steemit Pakistan, and Admin of Sell For Steem Community. But all of this came after untiring efforts and a huge commitment to Steemit.

I must say I was and I am still like you all here. A normal Steemit User but definitely with added responsibilities of Managing a country Community, A Country Curation Account, and activities like that :)

Back in the Days on 8/21/2020, I wrote my first diary game which currently is perhaps below average :D. So Let's talk a little about how has my experience been with The Diary Game.

It was the start of the Diary Game and we used to use tags of the #1000daysofsteem and betterlife obviously. I was an active participant in The Diary Game Season 1 and then we joined Season 2 as well. We had a different community back then and the leaders were some other people. Who failed to make us understand the diary game completely thus we did our own efforts and tried to understand what it actually meant.

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What if not the Diaries?

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Before the Diary games, I used to work in the Project Hope Community and write articles based on technology, business and marketing, and stuff like that. I was very happy there but didn't know anyone and couldn't build relations among the members. The only friend I made there was The Admin of the Community, Crypto.Piotr.

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International Friends

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Since the arrival of Diary Game, I became more consistent on Steemit and I started making new friends. Even before the announcement of Steemit Pakistan, SteemAlive came into being and @ngoenyi & @focusnow were perhaps the first international friends that I had made on Steemit. They were and are amazing people and I am really happy that I still hold good relations with Them.

Soon after joining SteemAlive Community, I saw how communities are being run and we were way behind in that. We announced the Steemit Pakistan Community and gathered users through Promotion On Steemit, Facebook, Instagram, Our Family, in our area, and Friends. I got great Support from the Steemit Team too in running and building the Community.

Frist Recognition of my Efforts

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Time has passed quickly and this image below is perhaps the most memorable for me as I had no idea if it was ever gonna happen to me or not. I had been making continuous diaries, with all that I had understood.

As you can see, we all wait for this perhaps nowadays (But with bigger votes than that ;) ) But back in the days, I was only extremely curious to get in touch with The Steemit team I just wanted to know if my efforts are getting recognized or not and one fine morning, I got these notifications and that day, I was the happiest person on the planet ;)

I even wrote that in my post and thanked the Steemit Team. The introduction of The Diary Game Season two was an amazing initiative and since then, it has never ended as we used to call it The Never-Ending Season. I hope you remember that @ngoenyi :p

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Steemit >>> Any other Social Media Application

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Then there was a time when I used to sing about Steemit on all my social platforms and used to spend my time on other social apps too doing selfish scrolling and commenting. I realized that if I really have to find real people to talk to, Steemit is the best place to do so. So why shall I not put my efforts there and try to bring my friends on Steemit too?

Along with my best friend(Just like a brother to me <3) who is Hassanabid, I started inviting all my friends, cousins, and people from Pakistan who wanted to work on this site but had no knowledge of it. Even back then, I did online sessions and taught people about Steemit. There were so many people who joined us in the Steem Pakistan first and then in the STEEMIT PAKISTAN Community that we have now Alhamdulillah and we are doing our best to run this community in the best way possible :)

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The Diary Games and Me

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Once we joined the Diary Games Season, I used to be a regular member of this Season. I used to enjoy writing diary games and didn't care much about what I was getting. I used to get comments from people, I also visited their dairies and their posts to appreciate their working on Steemit.

The experience with Diary games had such a big influence on my life that I literally started spending days on Steemit. Looking at the routines of people from Different Countries, their food, their lifestyle, their cultures, their festivals and this really increased my knowledge about different people in the World.

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I used to get so involved in the Diary games and their promotional activities that I started talking about them in special meetings with my friends and tried to bring them back on Steemit. We succeeded and on this day as you can read in My Diary game Post, that we recruited ibad4242 through combined efforts ;)

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The Diary games made me believe that I could write well and there was always room for improvement. Even today when I write, I try to make my posts more and more attractive. I always try to find ways to make my posts attractive and grab the attention of the users.

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Who invited Me and Whom did I invite?

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As stated above, I was working in the Project Hope community and had a good friendship with Crypto.Piotr. Both me and Hassanabid got respected in that Community and our articles were admired. From there, we were spotted by the then CR of Pakistan, Rashid. He was the one who invited us to write the Diary Games in the Steem Pakistan Community.

After realizing a few things about the then Community and the Admins, we felt something was fishy and thus created a New Community with CR of Pakistan. We started running that Community with great commitment and effort. I invited a lot of users from Pakistan. Many of them are still active. It's been a long time so I don't even remember many of them but I shall try to mention the usernames that I remember.

• Ibad4242
• Shahab1998
• syedfarhan
• talhahabib
• dabeerahmed
• Yarhassan
• Bassamjamal
• Mustafaasif
• nimrazahid
• moohsin
• faisee
• And a lot of other users that I really don't remember at this time :)

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A Funny Experience

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Since the diary games began, I started taking pictures of the food that I ate, the breakfast, the streets, playground and started using the cell phone more and more.

My mother saw me doing so and she started doubting on me what I was doing. She started thinking that I have got someone in my life ( Like a girlfriend) she thought and told me not to use the phone for a few days. I couldn't resist and I asked her why she was behaving like this. She said to me:

Show me the girl to whom you send all these pictures and where are you investing so much time of yours?

She was literally really much worried and I started laughing out loud. Although it was not the right time to do that but I had no other options as I literally thought it was extremely Funny. She screamed at me and was almost about to punish me. I quickly realized that and showed her my cell phone. It was steemit that she saw and was very tough to make her understand steemit xD

Anyways, I got through that phase and now whenever she asks me any such question, I remind her about Steemit and she accepts that very innocently :p Anyways, I don't get time to take those pictures anymore with the added responsibilities of being an elder boy in the House and also being a CR on steemit and an Admin of Country Community :p

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This was all about my experience with the Diary Games. I could add a lot more things but I have just recovered from a bad phase and I am trying to write as much as I can :). Hope you guys enjoyed reading that :)

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I would like to invite @dabeerahmed, @mile16 and @ngoenyi to participate in this challenge.

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Yours, Haidermehdi.
Country Representative Pakistan.
Steem On!