Hey Hive! Here I am, re-introducing myself: @soyrosa, aka Rosanne.
In December of 2017 I arrived on Steem and I felt at home immediately. Why? I had already done 'community blogging' in my teenage years. I remembered everything: from watching the timeline to see people you had gotten to know so well share an update about their day, to seeing 'hot' posts, to seeing lovely comments, to witnessing fights... A blogging community is very very intense, people who are incredibly different from one another suddenly come together and exchange their views - where in real life we normally tend to enjoy the company of people who are more or less similar from ourselves.
Anyway, that's how I got on Steem, but of course, that's not who I am. Then who am I?
I was born in the 80s, I was a 'smart kid', read tons of books, didn't like playing outside. A bit of a nerd, but social and empathic enough to never be the unpopular kid. After secondary school I decided to study psychology at the University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands - I liked people and behaviour, and Psychology won from Sociology because I didn't like the people who I met at the university where they taught that subject. So yeah. A bit of subject and a bit of people, mix it together, and I made my choice for my future.
It shows who I am, I think, because in most of my decisions I take into account that human factor: Do I like it? Yes. Do I like the people too? If yes, well, we can GO, of no, well, I might just skip whatever it is, because people can make or break anything I do in life.
I'm often surprised by people who can make a decision based on solely subject matter or principal/ideological reasons.
Is that why I am on Hive now?
Well, basically... Yes.
I watched the conflict from afar, then saw who moved to Hive, and decided that 80% of 'my' people would be on Hive, and max 20% of 'my' people on Steem. Apart from ideological reasons, then, I picked Hive, and even if I thought these people were all wrong I would have picked Hive over Steem just for them.
So yeah. People. They are part of my roots in life.
I once did a test to identify roots and the core exists of: life's stories, emotions, art/culture. When combined? I definitely recharge. Think of visiting an arthouse movie, reading a fictional story (if non-fictional I miss the 'art' part of my roots, but still definitely ticking a few boxes), or going to the museum that shows work of an artist while also sharing pieces of his or her life.
I've always told stories myself. I wrote blogs in my teenage years, then, on that blogging platform, and I'm still doing it today. I also did a lot of photography for a big part of my twenties.
Things changed a bit at the end of my twenties. I went traveling, made a 'wrong step' literally on day 3 of my travels, and 2 months later the pain had gradually become so bad that I had to cancel all plans and return home again.
I still can't walk a lot.
It has changed how I move (quite literally), who I depend on, what I do, how I look at myself. I wrote about it a lot in the beginning of my Steem career. I write about it less now. I did a lot of 'figuring things out' and now I'm very very smart about how to get everything delivered to my home, minimize the amount of steps I have to take to get to Pilates class, etcetera. It took a long long time, and all I have to figure out now is what kind of job I want and can get that suits my body and leaves room to do things beside work as well.
One thing I learned is that having limited mobility COSTS A LOT OF TIME. Things that are normal for one take hours for someone else.
So yeah. One visit to my family might in fact take up three days of my time: one day before I can't do much because I have to walk a lot next day, then I have the visit to my parents, then I have a recovery day because I walked too much the day before.
You can see how my life is a bit slower than most would live in their thirties. But I'm starting to feel fine with it and even enjoy some parts of it. Like the craft of felting I took up a few months ago and is now filling my life and giving me an outlet for my creative energy.
I will share more about that in another post.
Okay, well, I rambled, and feel I've taken up enough of your time. I didn't link all relevant posts. Ask me questions of you want to read about something more, I probably shared it on one post or another. I need to share more photography again - especially the street photography and all my Urbex Photography since I noticed an Urban Exploration community.
- I love chocolate
- I love cheese more
- I'm Dutch
- I once painted the walls of my room #ff3366 pink
- I live in and love Rotterdam
- I organized many Steem meet-ups and will organize a Hive meet-up (after Corona slowed down)
- I sometimes dream of living like a fly and just observing people in their own homes
Thanks @anomadsoul, @blocktrades and @ocdb for creating an opportunity to re-introduce ourselves to Hive! I've seen many posts in my feed but I loved the one @fotostef shared today - it's filled with amazing pictures, so it's an easy one to enjoy, plus I think he's an amazing human being.
Cheers!