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Is it the Bear Market?  Is it the lack of value in the STEEM token?  Or is it something more sinister?

I really don't know.  But my desire to come to STEEM every day and put a post together is sincerely lacking at the moment.  So let's take a critical look at it and see if we can draw any conclusions.

Value of the STEEM token.  As of this writing, the value of the STEEM token is $0.216 each.  It is the lowest it has ever been during my time on STEEM.  That's certainly depressing, but If we trust in the platform and in the future of the token, then the current daily value shouldn't matter.  Don't sell here and you're still in good shape.  For the bull minded, it is an opportunity to buy at a ridiculous price.  Once upon a time I dreamed of the day that I could buy sub $1.00 STEEM and give myself some decent power here. 

Unfortunately, my faith in the leadership here has been shaken.  I don't have faith that this token is going to recover.  Not right now.  I'm not dumping it.  But STEEM is currently, as it has been since day 1, my biggest investment in Crypto.  I am not going to average down, I am not going to cut my losses, I am going to HODL and hope for a recovery.

So the value of the STEEM token really shouldn't matter to me at the moment other than as a trivial factor in where my current portfolio balance stands.  I rarely open my DELTA portfolio tracker at the moment, so STEEM should be the opportunity to just accumulate more.

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The Bear market is depressing, and a week ago I posted that I was under my initial buy in investment for the first time since I started accumulating crypto.  But all of my tokens still exist.  I am a little more than a 4x away from getting back to my all time high in BTC value, and if I trust in BTC, then the Fiat value will go back up as BTC recovers once the bear finally relents.  I still believe in most of my tokens.  And many of them I have such small amounts that I might as well ride them out and seeif they either go to zero or recover and get me back to some new highs. The tokens I hold the most of, I have at least a limited faith that they are projects that are continuing to build and will increase in value.  So, like STEEM, i will continue to HODL my EOS, DRGN, SMART, TOMO, SEN, ZRX, 0x and other projects that COULD have bright futures.

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Thank you Garth.  I think you have summed up exactly what my problem is at the moment.  I just don't know that I have a whole lot to say.  And I suppose that's okay.  Aside from the fact that I have several community votes that I receive as often as once daily, I could not post for several days and I don't think much of anyone would notice.  The interactions are not deep and meaningful, there are much more active comments sections than mine.   So really, the only reason for me to post daily is to collect those votes.  Some days it just doesn't seem worth the effort.

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So how do you motivate yourself to give maximum effort?  It is a busy time of year, and maybe that is part of the lack of interest.  But There should be something to write about... shouldn't there?

I mean. Ultimately, this is just a really long way of making a Shit Post to collect my auto-votes.  I haven't really said anything interesting.  But by posing a question at the end it is supposed to garner some responses and encourage interactions.  So that makes it not a shit post.  Or something.

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