I feel like you have a lot of potential to write and post quality content and it would be a shame to make it in vain. Follow me and i will follow u back in order to get more popular and fore more people to view our posts! thanks! Anyone who sees this can do the same, i refollow anyone. We're small but we can grow together!

I feel grateful for just being here, but in that there is no one to be grateful to - I don't know, maybe ned or dan for creating this community. To pay it forward, I guess convincing others to join would be the best option. I already have my family on Steemit, so that would leave friends, which is not that easy. For one thing, many people tend to raise an eyebrow hearing about cryptos and it's hard to blame them with all the FUD. On the other hand, it's a bit of jealousy - it's hard to share something you love. Still something I need to work on.

Some people might be surprised why I mentioned @joshuaetim in most of my comments and post but its my way of showing gratitude to him. Am glad he introduced me to this platform and also took some time to explain to me some virtue I'll need to succeed on Steemit - patience and commitment. 

Am grateful for this platform. It gives me a voice and show me how much we can do in the world with our willingness to give which in this case is simply an upvote. On Steemit I happen to meet people like @damarth who through his one meal a day campaign has inspired me to serve as a foot soldier in sharing the food to those who really need it. 

Whenever I express gratitude to these people and this platform I ask myself how will I pay this people back except to also extend the kindness to the people around me. This I will do by ensuring I introduced as many people as I can to this platform and to those who might not be able to earn from a platform like this, I will extend the kindness through charitable giving to those who need it. Thank you @tarazkp, for always taking time to write quality post that contribute to this community.

I'm grateful for the experience of being here on steemit. It has harnessed my writing skills, and socializing skills to an extent. I've always had the dream of being a writer and speaker, with every day I spend here, I see that dream come alive.

Well education

I guess.. as older as I go. I'm now grateful for having a new 'tribune' from where spit out my extravagantly conscious *way of thinking* without censorship to the masses. And through these actions, also be able to obtain my livelihood and a minimal survival mechanism to keep me going ahead doing it. Just offering the only thing of value I possess and have at hand: *A good chunk of some free quality time. And a little bit of knowledge, eccentric wisdom, vivid experiences and some knowhow.* And of course, my seemingly more hidden generosity, solidarity and gratitude. :)

Oh! And prolly I am also grateful, by my now *new capability* to wildly show my *¿often unintelligible and usually misunderstood?* **Sense of Humor** (¿arrogance?) to tell you and talk about the things such like I perceive them from where I standing.

So, the apparent or *evident* ostracism, loneliness and more likely **cheerful solitude** that I've got and enjoyed thru the years after my occasional public tirades out there seems like they are gonna be my eternal companion. I suppose I've purportedly earned these arm wrestling mercilessly. }:)
And therefore, I suspect that this will be my fate for what remains of my life. Since I am positive that I am already too old now to try combat it or successfully change it as to please anyone.

> what do you get out of it, what will you do with it?

Hmmm, I have the hunch that it's utmost mere pleasure. Mere pleasure to know that I probably still count with new victims with whom play with their minds through my *sadistic* intentions to make them think and make them more aware. And that if this also gives me the possibility of being me more self-sufficient to keep me alive along the ride. Well, so be it!! :)

Being grateful shifts my perspectives. It helps me focus on the upside in every situation rather than downside. I am more happy, relaxed and stress-free.

I couldn't be more grateful for all the opportunities...Thank you

I see what you mean about being grateful selfishly. Kinda when I think about it when people volunteer for charity organizations just to say they did it and feel good about themselves. I guess I don't have a problem with it since it always results in GOOD coming out of it.

Thought-provoking stuff as always. You said it all pretty well, so I'll just answer your questions at the end, for now.

I'm grateful for the people I've found on Steemit who continue to support and encourage me even though there's relatively little that I can give them. I can give ideas, encouragement, and advice, but I don't have much to give monetarily or upvote-wise. Still, there are quite a few people who give me feedback on my posts or comments. They upvote me more than I can give back to them. 

Their support is one of the reasons I was able to sponsor a contest giving away memberships to @steembasicincome. I've been given a lot of support and that's one way to pay that forward and help people who are still just starting out.

The gratitude is now becoming extinct with people who do not know its value. It does not feel the other and has a conscience. It is really a very nice thing to be grateful. But people do not know its worth. Thank you brother @tarazkp for this sensitive subject.

A super nice read. This world would be so much better if everyone has a grateful and compassionate heart.❤ Pay it forward, duly noted! 👌

first of all thank you for those amazing posts, secondly i'm grateful for the experience of being in this wonderful platform, here where i learned so many thing and i'm still learning and reading valuable posts like yours get new knowledge and people as well, hopefully to be able to use this wonderful platform as much as possible and know others ideas and way of thinking. thank you again @tarazkp