I look for the good in 2024.

Usually, this would be easy for me, but this last year has been challenging.

To write this post, I had to dig deep to find the positive highlights I had this last year involving Hive.

There are 365 days in a year. I had to have had something good happen in the last year to want to write a post about it. It saddened me that I could not come up with an answer right away.

How can I always give others positive advice but have difficulty finding something happy to write about in my own world? I started looking for the little things that happened each day. No one's day is filled with misery; every minute of every day, even on really horrible days, something positive happens.

Hive has always been my happy place. Someone once promised me I would always have this place to write and be happy. They kept their promise to me every year Hive has been around. I will forever be in that person's debt. You know who you are.

With those thoughts in mind, I started looking for the little things Hive gives me daily that I might take for granted. Things I have gotten so used to I do not see clearly anymore. Through the next week, I paid attention more to my days and realized how fucking lucky I was.

Each day in 2024, I am given the gift of the great people I have met on Hive over the last seven years.

My friend Jan (@TheHive to the rest of you) will talk with me if he is awake when I need someone to speak with. I have not been around much this year, but when I could be and needed to just laugh, Jan was always there for me. I love him for that.

I have @Enginewitty, who called me at least once a month over the last year to ensure I was still alive and would not get off the phone until he heard me laugh. Some days, he was on the phone much longer than he had the time, yet he made the time. I love him for that.

So many of us behind the scenes care for new and oldish people on Hive without anyone knowing. We watch and help where possible and do not ask for anything in return.

Those same people are the silent backbone of Hive, and that is what makes each and every one of them so special to me. Knowing there is a group of people I can ask for help from is heartwarming. Those same people will drop what they are doing and find answers or ideas on how best to help someone if I ask them for help.

It makes me proud to be a part of Hive and the community that has sprung up over the years. Each of those people holds such a special place in my heart. They show me what love and helping people is really about.

Hive is a Blockchain, not a person, but those of us on Hive have made it home. I have seen kindness and caring while on the Blockchain, which makes me proud to tell the world I write on Hive.

My sanity was tested in 2024. Without Hive, I would not have survived another year.

My highlight happened way back in February of 2024. I needed a break from life. I was breaking into a million pieces and needed a place to rest. @Brisby, whom I met on the Blockchain, opened her house and family. I spent ten of the most relaxing days of my life at her home.

Brisby took me in and gave me my dream vacation. There is no way on this earth I can ever thank her for that. If it wasn't for Hive, I would never have met Brisby, and I don't know if I would be here now.

Hive saved my life in the year of 2024.

So, to those who say Hive is just a blockchain, one day, I hope you can see it is so much more than that!

This is my post for the The Annual Hive Highlight Challenge.

There will be a drawing for the Grand Prize of 100 Hive to a random winner.

What is your Hive 2024 highlight? Write a post and find out!! Who knows, your 2025 highlight might be that you won 100 Hive from a post you wrote in 2024!!! You never know!! Give it a go!