A few days ago, I created a new challenge called My Three Favourite Posts. You can read all about it here and I'd love it if you could take part.
I figured if it's my challenge, I should support myself 😃so yesterday I spent a long timing going through all my posts to find my favourite three. I went all the way back to 2018 for one of them because it meant a lot to me, even though it may seem very mundane when you read it. But that's the point of this challenge, to find a post that you love for whatever reason it may be, and talk about it. So here goes....
Hive Forest
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This post is the last in the series of charity fundraising posts I did in 2020. It happened during Covid lockdown when I was very bored at home and started to cut trees out of cardboard boxes because I had nothing better to do. The above image is some of the 60 I did, each one is different. I wanted to put them to good use and decided to ask people to adopt a tree for 3 Hive and donate the proceeds to charity. All my trees were adopted within a week and the community raised over 176 Hive and nearly 49 HBD, which equated to over USD100 for my chosen charity.
The reason I like this post so much is because Covid was a low point for many people. Many felt so isolated and it was weird to be living in an environment that we had never experienced before. Being able to do something to bring the Hive community together was a blessing, not to mention fun.
The most fun part was this final post when I did a video of the ceremonial burn of all the trees. During the burn, I cast a little spell on Justin Sun, who at that time had done a hostile takeover of Steem and froze over 23m Steem from the community. That is not supposed to happen in a decentralised world!! In the afternoon after my ceremonial burn, someone transferred that 23m Steem from him to Bittrex. The community was cheering. Maybe my spell had something to do with !! JJ. If you were on the chain back then, you'd remember that joyful day. And if you joined recently, you can check out this post to learn what I'm talking about.
Cycling with my siblings
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A few years ago when I was living in Taiwan, I didn't get to see my family a lot. One year, a few of my siblings came to visit me in Taiwan and we did a tour around the island. On one morning a few of us did a bit of cycling. This may seem the most normal thing to do for many people, but for me, that half an hour was very special.
First, I was on holiday with my family and they are very dear to me. Second, we were in a beautiful part of the country. And third, we were doing something that we'd never done before together. We weren't kids, and we weren't the healthy regular exercise type. Cycling was not on our list of to do things, and the fact that we could do it under such an amazing environment, zooming so carefree along the road was just ace and a cherished moment for me.
My Granma
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And finally, my last favorite post is special to me because it's about my grandma. I lived with her for many years when I was a kid, then again after I graduated from university. In fact I think I may have lived longer under the same roof with her than with my mum.
When I was writing this post, memories about my gran started to flow back. From when the 9 year old me first started to live with her, to the last time I saw her at hospital when she died. The last time I visited my granma's grave was in 2019, but since I won't be returning to Hong Kong soon, it will be a while before I can go pay my respects again. Writing and reading my memories about her has been very therapeutic for me.
For those who follow me, may know I mainly write travel content. I love travelling and enjoy documenting them so I can look back to see where I've been. None of my travel posts have made my favourite list because ... well they're nice but not special enough to become my favourite. Personally I like my posts when they can trigger special memories for because often that's all we have to hold on to.
Now I've told you about my favorite posts, how about you have a go? Tell us why your favourite posts are your favourite posts. Look forward to reading them.
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