Thank you very much for your very kind words @kus-knee and thank you also for taking the time to read what I have written, I know it was quite long.

I had a wee look at your blog and you seem like a very cool and friendly guy so I am sorry I won't get the chance to get to know you better. I am conflicted about leaving as this is also my first experience of social media and I was quite enjoying getting my thoughts out there but I have always been suspicious of sites like facebook etc and with steemit I feel I have let my guard down and maybe some others have as well.

The money I could make from posting here would certainly help to make my life easier, as I'm sure is the case with most of us but I'm not sure if it will be worth it in the end if by posting here I am ultimately supporting a system that will further erode our personal freedoms in the future.

It is a difficult decision because I of course have no idea how this will turn out and am merely speculating as a skeptical thinker. Hopefully this platform really is a benevolent entity and does erode some of the control of world governments and traditional financial institutions. Then I will have to admit that I was wrong in my speculations and suffer the future financial consequences of not being in at the ground floor when things took off.

I do feel these conflicting emotions. If benevolent, I could use steemit to attain a certain level of freedom that I don't currently possess. If malevolent, I could be turning back down the road I have travelling and find myself willingly helping to build a more secure prison than the one from which I am trying to escape.

Hope you are having a fantastic day buddy!

Thanks again!