I’ve been realizing a pattern on Hive concerning newbies, and I couldn’t help but talk about it. It happened to me in my first three months when I joined Hive, and I’m sure someone also went through the same thing. Sometimes when people join the Hive blockchain, they get lost and begin to feel like since they can’t write as well as most oldbies, they don’t fit.
I remember my introduction post. I knew what I wanted to write, but anytime I wrote something down, it felt weird reading it. I wrote and deleted about five times before eventually publishing it, and from there, each other post I published became a bother. I used to read over my posts so many times and they just didn’t feel okay to me because it sounded nothing like the ones I read on hive. So during those times, I just didn’t even want to be publishing anymore.
Thankfully, I had my amazing people from Hive Ghana coming through for me during those times, and I’m just grateful. So I’m just going to share how you can also go through that phase as a newbie.
To tackle this issue, personally, looking for what I love to do was what helped me. I won’t even lie. As I said earlier, writing was hard for me because I wasn’t used to expressing my thoughts to people all over the world. The furthest I’d ever gone to express personal thoughts has always been in my diary. So when I found out I could have a virtual journey on a blockchain, I was excited but still timid.
Right from the onset, I was only playing it safe in the HiveGhana community because I understood that there were my people and there’s no place like home. But at a point, I realized that nobody grows in their comfort zone, so if I really wanted to network on Hive, I had to broaden my network.
I had to begin by finding out which part of the hive ecosystem was for me. And thankfully, I found people who spoke my language: NeedleWorkMonday. That very day when I was writing about my crochet, my words began to flow really well , and I had no holdbacks. So from there, I felt relaxed anytime I was writing anything. And to be honest, my whole excitement and being so enthusiastic became high when I found out I could actually just share my experiences and thoughts and get people to relate with me rather than judge me.
In as much as we are all different,
I want to believe that one of the safest and quickest ways of feeling at home over here is finding the people who do what you do and also just sharing what you do. As simple as that. If you are an artist, you can just find the art community. A farmer? The farming community. Do you like to create stuff with your hands? There’s also DIY.
You don’t have to write like Abenad or any other writer. Don’t stress yourself to be who you are not; just find your people first, and as time goes on, you’ll begin to feel at home.
Images are mine
