I guess being in HIVE will always be an investment. You use your time to grow in a blockchain that has a lot of potential for the future. Along the way you will learn about its technology and the way in which the community integrates into the ecosystem; the most important thing... You are already part of that exponential growth.
The time I attended an event at Labitconf where HIVE was promoted and highlighted to the rest, I felt that we are facing a unique opportunity that we must seize with great enthusiasm. Above all, we have a commitment to give back in some way. I believe that the main way is to support this growth to which we are all aspiring.
Now from an economic point of view, undoubtedly many of us are interested in generating profits and that is something that I think is fine, because that is what is expressed as interest and that is characteristic of Web3. However, there must be a retribution and that is to add value, which could be enough with the creation of content but we must also take into account the way in which we manage our rewards for the growth of HIVE.
I guess many will have their strategies and most of us go to increase our HP considerably. And what happens if we make withdrawals? In that case each person has a different story to tell and we cannot judge without knowing what situation that person is going through. In that sense, I suppose we all have bad days and good days, low seasons and high seasons; days when the sun comes out and others when we only see clouds.
I set out to accumulate HP with the intention of growing with the community and although I am delegating virtually all my HP, it is only in the pursuit of maximizing profits with which to see if I can double (in a trading attempt) that stake.
Many times I have made withdrawals and it is something that hurts quite a bit, because it sets back that progress you plan to make. But there are emergencies or situations in which you must decide in a short time and unfortunately sometimes there is no other option. However, we are in HIVE to advance and taking that into account, you can always recover what you are missing, so it becomes a kind of replenishment of what you have previously accumulated.
If I were to talk about my dreams, without any doubt I could say that I would like to be part of the best that will happen to HIVE at some point. What better way to invest if not by doing everything possible to grow as a community?
Answering the main question, I am for the first option, even though sometimes I have to come back to reality and postpone my dreams just a little bit.
I wrote this testament only because I saw that many people had written a lot of text and I felt the need to tell what I think about it.