Hey, I'm surprised that you didn't renew your support for the HiveBuzz Proposal (#248) as you have always been one of its fervent supporters.
The project is not funded anymore for nearly a month and we struggle to get it back above the stabilizer to continue our work. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll be happy to answer them, but please don't leave me in the dark. Thanks

I am not there yet.  It is very difficult to be open and personal online, knowing once anything is on the internet it will be forever. 

Do you post without any reservations? 

Sorry to hear that about your friend, I could recall when I was young I did this crazy thing where I took a bunch of personal family photos to school just to show my friends how adorable I believed I was, I ended losing them and this wasn't just my photos but that of my entire family.

Even though nobody really noticed as we have like a ton of those, I still feel extremely upset about losing such an important thing, so I could say that at the slightest, I can relate.

About Hive, I believe more people than you think might actually see it that way, I personally have developed some funny form of networking with people around here and that has had a great effect on my growth all round. The content I push out each day gives me a sense of satisfaction that usually on days I don't do anything, it feels like I took some steps backwards and I'm one to always want to keep improving, growth means a lot to me.It really is amazing and a great experience at that. 

I can imagine this situation your friend faced, I once traveled and my bag was stolen I lost everything and it was Soo painful because the bag I lost was filled with foodstuffs and we were face famine then, I had to stay a long time with food, I lost my money and phone no way to communicate with my parents because I was a student then. Am so sorry 😔.
I pray he gets it back . 

Omg, my heart literally sank when I read the part about the journal for his son got stolen as well. Almost everything else is replaceable, but something that personal and painstakingly maintained is hard to replace. 

Hopefully he has his contact information in the journal just in case and he gets it back.

Wow, that is tough.  I would say to write in a Google Doc or something like that, but that feels far less personal than a hand written journal.  I have heard of some people making email addresses for their kids when they are  young, then they email them and when they are 18 they give them access to the account.  Who knows if email will be around in another 18 years though!  That's too bad for your colleague.  I can't imagine how devastating that must be.

I agree Hive is more than just a way of earning rewards but in your case tonight it clears your head. I have found it helps to clarify thoughts instead of thinking them out you can get lost in a post and have answers by the end. This place has been such a valuable tool for me personally and would never have guessed that.

That's too bad. 

If writing personal things like that on Hive would be too uncomfortable for him, another option you could suggest after he has recovered from the loss is some kind of private online journal. I use Day One, which is on my Mac, my iPhone, and my iPad and it syncs with the cloud. It is encrypted if privacy is a concern. That gives a little more redundancy than a handwritten journal or one only on a single PC. I'm sure there are similar programs for the Windows or Linux world. 

Here is Day One if he's an Apple user and you'd like to suggest it to him. → <https://dayoneapp.com/>

I realize that I fail to see alot about Hive. I've been realizing a lot lately by opening my mind to what I read. Yes, I do love Hive but maybe I haven't really fully grasped the whole concept. It'll be nice to really get out of my head every once a while and I feel sorry for your friend. I genuinely hopes he finds a solution and a way forward 

A written article, what a shame  for your friend to have  his journal stolen, awful. 
Starting over can be tough but what else can you do?
Wish him luck from farm-mom😁

>However, it is exactly for this reason that I write on Hive, because I know that I am far more likely to lose a book or have a hard-drive die on me, so that it would be lost to the world and I would be shattered too

In a way hive is like time capsule. It should survive long after we will be gone.

Reading this on delog.io, damn this is a fast Hive experience.

In the end, the only thing you got is...you.

I remember losing my bag with phone, wallet, cards and everything else. Quite a hit, took weeks to recover from it.

Saludos @tarazkp , que triste que tu amigo haya perdido sus escritos para su hijo,  es algo invalorable pero se que si el busca inspiración volverá a hacer ese diario y aun con otras palabras que le faltaron por decir. ..espero que pronto pueda sentirse mejor por esto y tu también, eres un gran amigo. 

Empathically, I am also very sorry for your friend, but it is important that he knows what to do and that he starts over... stopping is never an option.

I agree with you that writing about Hive can have many implications, it would be hypocritical to say that the economic one is not one and that many don't do it for this reason; I believe, however, that by fully exploiting the potential of the ecosystem, much more can be obtained than a mere economic gain, certainly if things are done well, that too will be obtained, but the benefits that we will obtain will also be many others.

I use this place to reflect and when I write about my thoughts, I wait to know what other people may think, what their ideas are, for me the comparison has always been fundamental and is a reason for growth and here I have the opportunity to deal with many people.

Then of course I made a selection and there are some people I respect the most and from whom I await a comment to find out what they think, however, I can find inspiration or help even from those with whom I may have never spoken and I think this is true wealth .

I hope that your first day in Portuguese has gone well.
I hug you!

Can't track the laptop to wherever the thief is and ~~head over there to beat the snot out of them~~ notify authorities? Though it doesn't really help if they just grabbed that and whatever else looked valuable and dumped everything else -_-

Also maybe people should just not be dicks to begin with.

Having said that being paranoid when I did have a physical diary/journal/thing (and even now with my laptop) if it had to be moved it travelled in a bag that was going to be with/on/near me all the time precisely because I was worried something like that might happen x_x

Starting again is really all one can do in that situation, poor bugger.

Perhaps not many on hive specifically but people in general have been using blogging as a reflection/feedback tool since it became a thing, though I don't know how many were consciously doing it as such.  One of the early blogging site things was actually called Open Diary and looks like it's still active XD and the next one I was aware of (and ended up being dragged kicking and screaming onto by my friends) was called LiveJournal so there was a theme there (I deleted my livejournals when I started my own glorified blogsite).  And then as more people got into it, it morphed into "finding a niche" and stuff to "prove your expertise" and "stand out".  I find it slightly amusing that when I watched it start people were like WHY WOULD ANYONE PUT THEIR PRIVATE THOUGHTS AND STUFF ONLINE FOR ALL TO SEE and these days it's WHY WON'T YOU PUT YOUR PRIVATE THOUGHTS ONLINE WHAT ARE YOU HIDING (okay perhaps gross exaggeration but I remember a supervisor in one job letting me know he'd found my blog through probably Facebook at the time and liked my art and I was like okay cool I guess? and he said he didn't trust anyone that didn't have some kind of online presence, which I found puzzling).

What a pity. I hope there is at least a small chance the suitcase was taken by accident so that your friend can recover his journal. Or, perhaps the journal is discarded where it can be used to find him. 

I was big into photography and video for some time. But, I came to the realization that storage can become a problem. I don't want to take on the responsibility of managing multiple drives for backup. And, while cloud services do a better job than I would, I have to keep paying them to avoid losing things. 

I maintain a Flickr account. And, I pay for iCloud. There is some redundancy. 

For text, I agree with you that Hive is the best option. It is not in the hands of any one person to keep the blockchain alive. I'm not quite convinced that this works for other media. If a front-end folds, the media potentially goes too.

I think you are right to feel safe committing written memories to Hive. 

This is a great loss, the loss of a diary, it is a pity that he did not duplicate his entries anywhere. At least he could publish some of the records and photos in Hive, then his son would receive the records and crypto coins.