Thank you so much my friend for the mention. It's great to know that I still have a few friends around that can be of help to me. 

All the best my friend.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Becky

It touches on several relevant points when it comes to staying active in Hive. We focus on things that we hardly end up attracting. Better to focus on other things that will lead to what you want for yourself, and then enjoy the payoff without blurring from your previous goals. It's a lesson I learned after reading *"Rich Dad, Poor Dad,"* and I try to apply it to all areas of my life, including Hive

I hope you can find your stay better than what I had. It's my first day of returning to blogging, so I have to redeem myself and strive to do better than I did before.

Please pardon me for now, @starstrings01, @rollinshive will explain better tomorrow

Thanks for creating an awareness for everyone! 
And I'm really glad to read them...
It's true, building relationship matters on Hive and all...

Cheers @starstrings01

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At first when I joined hive, I was concern about the reward, now, I just love the fact I can be appreciated by others and I can also appreciate others for what they. Hive is not just a community, hive is home. Just like you, I'm still trying to engage more in different things, not just posting but trying to know more people and share more ideas. Thanks for this beautiful post bro.

Nice post guy, it's really thoughtful of you.

It is one thing to make friends and another to carry them along ; it's very easy to make a thousand friends a day but can you actually cope with that ? Making friends is a serious business and you've got to be ready as long as you want more, they will become your responsibility but it's left to them if they will see or take you the same way.

Just the other day I asked @rollinshive who is this @appreciator and why is he doing all this things he's doing, course I so much admire him and his works, did you know what he said? He is one of the beneficiaries of #hive though they are much but he has been the only one still very active looking at how he goes around upvoting and curating posts and most of the times when people have gone offline, he does it as if it was his responsibility. The name APPRECIATOR really suites him well. 

**I** **salute** **you** @appreciator 
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@tupu curate

Nice post man... You see, over the time I have learnt these things and I have been using them mostly if I wanna bring in new people to hive. I don't boast about the rewards. I basically tell them the work involved. The commitment they have to put in or show, which involves reading (and I mean really reading people posts.) not just scrolling through, picking a line or two and add that line to Comment as reference and probably say a word or two on it. I am basically talking of reading the whole posts and understanding what the writer is really trying to pass on.

At times, I read a post on hive twice if I didn't catch the whole point during the first reading. Yea, commenting is another big issue. I was planning to write a post on this myself but not sooner. The way we all see commenting on hive is more like a job to many people. You know, that job that you would wake up in the morning, dress up and go to work. Come back home very stressed and tired and wish there is no wrk the next day cos the passion is not really there and you are just doing it for the money involved. That is the exact way many people here sees commenting.

Most don't comment for the sake of building a long lasting relationship or because a post is making them wow. They just do so for the reward which may involve getting attention or votes and so on. When I scroll through my Facebook page and see the way people comments on post (even lengthy posts) without expecting any rewards - of which they will never get, it amazes me. I will just say to myself "*if hive would be like this. It would be lot more fun.*"

Also, engaging in discussions on other platforms outside hive. Hmmmm🤔pls shift make I confess small🤣 I dey guilty of this one. I swear. But that's just because I am running lots of things that would have taken my attention away from hive if I haven't learnt to love hive and get connected with some people.
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I am still talking about the introduction of newbies by me. Lol. I don talk go Sha. But that is just the truth. I will tell them "*hive is a place you have your own blog, earn instantly from it without some shitty Google adsense and you have freedom of speech. No one centralization. BUT!!! you will see little or no reward at the beginning (even though they might see much more good results, I prefer having them think they won't) and you will be more involved with the communities than you have ever been in any other social media. Basically speaking bro, you will work your ass out. Get tons of beautiful posts uploaded, which will return with no rewards and no comment. You will get your ass kicked badly like you will cry hard. But hey! You love blogging right? It blogging that is the main deal and not the reward. The ability to share your thoughts to the world and be able to enjoy centralisation. But at the end, with much connection and consistency, you will get there.*"

I further show them posts. First, I start with lots posts with lots of low rewards..... Especially mine.... Then I will go over to the onea with high rewards and comment. I will only show them three or four of the ones with high rewards. I did this to @rickardoh when I wanted to onboard him and that is why I am not surprised he is still in the game and he is getting stronger. 

Thank you for the mention my friend, and you are rigth we have all come along these days, thanks to the blogging challeng actually, so we should be proud of us.

Without engagement it would all get tiring. It's really nice meeting people like you on hive