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With the hustle and bustle of life, a date I had been waiting for slipped through my fingers, almost to the day. August 22, 2022, a date I consider very important, as it was when I ventured into exploring this world of inexhaustible knowledge, creating content on #Hive. Finally, I have my long-awaited badge for three years of interacting with the blockchain, something that actually weighs heavily on the person I am. Since I understand that no one but me can know how much of my time I have had to sacrifice throughout this long journey. On this kind of highway that one travels in search of the promised reward, which in the end is what we work for. Rewards that many people may not be able to benefit from because they don't understand the opportunity that #Hive represents, either because they don't have the stamina needed to keep going. This may hold them back, even separating them in some way from the group of those who will find the result, because where there's a will, there's a way. It is normal that at first we may be overwhelmed by many negative thoughts, such as, for example: "Why bother, if in the end they pay so little?" I think that if you were one of those who decided to face all those storms, and despite everything you continued to fight for all your goals, then you have my respect. And I know you're on the other side of the story, where you end up falling passionately in love with everything we have here. #Hive is a great school. At first, you don't notice it because you're too distracted, watching how high the number under our posts gets. We practice the sport of hunting whales, dolphins, and any curator that comes our way to help us stay afloat in what would be a tough competition for survival. And that's not a bad thing, money is needed, a lot of it, but when you find a way to turn what you do into something attractive and entertaining, you avoid turning it into what would be more work. But as the years go by, you realize that you are no longer the same person you were when you got here. Blockchain has been transforming you, with financial tools, life lessons, and the motivation you need to constantly reinvent yourself and become a human being 2.0, one of those who no longer cry and so on. There have been many opportunities, lessons, friends, dreams, goals achieved or yet to be achieved, which somehow lead me to a universe that makes me wonder: why didn't I get here much earlier? But everything comes when you are brave enough to go out and search for it, because what separates us from greatness is the fear of failure. First of all, I want to thank myself for not faltering in the face of a bad result, because that is something inevitable and, if you pay too much attention to it, it ends up becoming what it is: noise in your head. I believe that things cannot be forced and that there is nothing more beautiful than living one day after another. Thank you to everyone who has influenced and shaped me, even becoming my family. Especially those who, with or without HBD, continue to be excellent human beings. I didn't want to overlook my third birthday on the blockchain, because it would be like forgetting how great it feels to be home. The images used in the post were sourced. Texts translated into English by [Deepl Translate](https://www.deepl.com/mobile-apps/?utm_source=android&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=share-with-friends).
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