Building Communities
Dear Uloggers and Stemians,
Today, I had decided to take the day off from Steeming and do something else, but I got a nice surprise in the afternoon that compelled me to write this.
I went to the market early in the morning to get my mother some greens for a fish soup we were going to prepare and some fruits. After that, I remembered that I had agreed to participate of a cleaning activity on my street. We had already done this a couple of times, and I even wrote a post about it:
https://steemit.com/ulog/@hlezama/ulog-14-or-doing-the-dirty-work
Even though only 4 families joined in, including my wife and I, it was a very fruitful day. We cleaned our block (taking advantage of the fact that for the first time in 10 years no sewage water is running down the gutters) like it had not been cleaned in years. It looks neat and we received lots of praising from passers-by.
The best part of today’s activity was that one neighbor who could not participate of the cleaning decided to contribute by preparing a meat soup for the “workers”. I have been living for almost 7 years on this street, this lady lives just 5 houses down and I had never been to her place. It was a delicious soup accompanied with casaba and avocadoes and she was very pleased that her neighborhood looked united and harmonious. We were proud of what we accomplished today. For the first time in years we looked like a community. We had members of at least 4 families eating at the same table. They are already making plans for another gathering, not to clean this time, but just to meet, eat, drink, and have fun, like people did 2 decades ago.
When we got home at about 3 PM and checked my Steemit account and found out that I had reached 500 SPs! And I was already a 60. That felt really good. Despite the bear market, despite all the limitations that we have over here, the communities that have welcomed me in this platform had made me believe that we can achieve great things when we put our minds and talents to it, and that there are good things ahead of us on Steemit and Steem will recover from this crisis.
I feel very grateful today and I have to specially thank musing.io because thanks to them I was able to accelerate my growth, almost tripling my SP in a month.
To the list of supporters that I had mentioned in this post by @equipocardumen (my first community of travelers),
https://steemit.com/castellano/@equipocardumen/equipocardumenpresentaalviajerohlezama-pp4a4v3swe
(@curie, @d-pend, @surpassinggoogle, @teardrops, @mermaidvampire, @steem-ua, @helpie, @provenezuela, @proconocimiento, @sbi7, @oddbot, @creativecrypto, @hr1, @tarazkp, @meno, @nathanmars, @youdontsay, @entropia, @informationwar, @jayna, @c-squared, @marillaanne, @quillfire, @tkappa)
I have to add some robotic accounts and trails that have recently started to show interest in my publications (@elsurtidor, @blocktrades, @ocd, @btu), as well to some users I have started to follow and interact with and whose post I have found extremely useful and supportive, @chbartist, @artguru, @josediccus, @girlbeforemirror, among others (my appologies for all those I am leaving out here, I just want to thank every user who has ever voted for any of my posts).
My next goals: to reach 1000+SP and reputation 70 while continue contributing with posts that people can relate to and find informative, insightful, and interesting.
Thanks for your reading. Your comments are valuable to me.
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