I look for the good in 2024.
Usually, this would be easy for me, but this last year has been challenging.
To write this post, I had to dig deep to find the positive highlights I had this last year involving Hive.
There are 365 days in a year. I had to have had something good happen in the last year to want to write a post about it. It saddened me that I could not come up with an answer right away.
How can I always give others positive advice but have difficulty finding something happy to write about in my own world? I started looking for the little things that happened each day. No one's day is filled with misery; every minute of every day, even on really horrible days, something positive happens.
Hive has always been my happy place. Someone once promised me I would always have this place to write and be happy. They kept their promise to me every year Hive has been around. I will forever be in that person's debt. You know who you are.
With those thoughts in mind, I started looking for the little things Hive gives me daily that I might take for granted. Things I have gotten so used to I do not see clearly anymore. Through the next week, I paid attention more to my days and realized how fucking lucky I was.
Each day in 2024, I am given the gift of the great people I have met on Hive over the last seven years.
My friend Jan (@TheHive to the rest of you) will talk with me if he is awake when I need someone to speak with. I have not been around much this year, but when I could be and needed to just laugh, Jan was always there for me. I love him for that.
I have @Enginewitty, who called me at least once a month over the last year to ensure I was still alive and would not get off the phone until he heard me laugh. Some days, he was on the phone much longer than he had the time, yet he made the time. I love him for that.
So many of us behind the scenes care for new and oldish people on Hive without anyone knowing. We watch and help where possible and do not ask for anything in return.
Those same people are the silent backbone of Hive, and that is what makes each and every one of them so special to me. Knowing there is a group of people I can ask for help from is heartwarming. Those same people will drop what they are doing and find answers or ideas on how best to help someone if I ask them for help.
It makes me proud to be a part of Hive and the community that has sprung up over the years. Each of those people holds such a special place in my heart. They show me what love and helping people is really about.
Hive is a Blockchain, not a person, but those of us on Hive have made it home. I have seen kindness and caring while on the Blockchain, which makes me proud to tell the world I write on Hive.
My sanity was tested in 2024. Without Hive, I would not have survived another year.
My highlight happened way back in February of 2024. I needed a break from life. I was breaking into a million pieces and needed a place to rest. @Brisby, whom I met on the Blockchain, opened her house and family. I spent ten of the most relaxing days of my life at her home.
Brisby took me in and gave me my dream vacation. There is no way on this earth I can ever thank her for that. If it wasn't for Hive, I would never have met Brisby, and I don't know if I would be here now.
Hive saved my life in the year of 2024.
So, to those who say Hive is just a blockchain, one day, I hope you can see it is so much more than that!
This is my post for the The Annual Hive Highlight Challenge.
There will be a drawing for the Grand Prize of 100 Hive to a random winner.
What is your Hive 2024 highlight? Write a post and find out!! Who knows, your 2025 highlight might be that you won 100 Hive from a post you wrote in 2024!!! You never know!! Give it a go!
Help someone smile today. It can not hurt you.
Snook
Header by: Photo by Shuaizhi Tian
All photos are mine unless otherwise stated.
.png)
Banner made by...🙀 🙎
I wish a lot more people would see hive as a hub for meeting and communicating. I have made some great friends on hive I would never have had the opportunity to meet before.
Same same, would like to meet you one of these days !PIMP
Ones of these days, hive moon permitting! 😃
I do too!!!
It is getting better though over the last few months I noticed.
I was in the PIMP meeting on Discord this morning and this afternoon there was a radio show in the Hive Discord I stopped in for. It's been a long time since I had talked to so many people in one day.
My hope is it keeps going this way as 2025 comes along and the real Winter is here with everyone but Australians huddled inside.
We are undergoing the real winter right know up in the bitter north! Although with climate change it's just not so bad these days.
It's good when you get those chances to realise the good times are still happening!
I live in Wisconsin, USA, and usually, we have a ton of snow by now, but, yeah, not so much these last years. Covid did help with better internet healthcare, though, and getting so much delivered now than you ever could before that happened.
It's funny how a post I didn't want to write made me realize how great I have it no matter what is happening in my real life. I also know many do not have such a great system of people around them when times get bad. In the end, I am very happy I muddled through the writing tonight!!
It will be my mantra for the next few days while taking care of my Mom and wanting to pull my hair out :D
Beautiful highlight. To me, Hive is not just a blockchain but a place filled with amazing souls to make your day great. I enjoyed reading this and I could see the year 2024 was a blast of a glorious year for you. See you soon in 2025 🎊🎊😎😎
Thank You!!!
The people on Hive are very special indeed!!
I can not imagine my life without this place and the people!
I'm sorry it's been a challenging year for you. I'm glad you've had some great moments to look back on, and hope there are far more for you in 2025.
!HUG
!LUV
!BBH
!PIMP
!ALIVE
!DUO
!DOOK
!hiqvote
You just got DUO from @bulliontools.
They have 1/1 DUO calls left.
Learn all about DUO here.
Thank You Bulliontools!!!
I'm really hoping 2025 is a better year!!! the last 2 years have been killers!!
Your response sounds very much like what Hive has meant to me! A safe place to offload and where I've met like-minded people from all over the world. I don't think there is any other place quite like this.
I love that @snook, pure awesomeness!
I think you are very correct!!!
Oh, I will be making your blueberry scones recipe I just read by the way but it's 4 am so not right now LOLLL
And I really think this place is magic. I know there are faults here, but there are faults everywhere but here I can be my real self, and people accept me for just who I am. There is no place I am as free as I am here.
Sometimes you just have to write a post to see what is right in front of your face!
HUGS!!
PS saying a prayer they can find a way to give you some relief for your pain too!!!
Thank you so much, @snook. Fortunately, I do not have much pain. It's the sudden numbness and kind of 'electric shocks' that happen when I tilt my neck backward. At least I now know to avoid doing that!
Yes, it takes all kinds, and Hive is no perfect world, but blogging for sure is a good way to share the good stuff, and 'dilute' the heartache!
Ummm, 4 am, is a tad too early for crumpets ;) Hope you went back to sleep again <3
That was a beautiful tribute to the Hive community! And you are one of the beautiful souls who make this the great place it is.
Thank you!!!
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and please don't work too hard!!!
HUGS!!!!
You said what I have been telling my family and friends, but you said it much better.
I hope you can find many good things in 2025.
It is very hard to get others to understand this place unless they come here with an open mind.
Let us hope for everyone that 2025 is overflowing with highlights of the incredible variety!!!
Being offered a 10 day retreat so to speak would have immediately stood out to me as my hive highlight of the year.
It just shows what Hive is to me... A social network where people are umm social!
Merry Christmas snook!
It did when I looked at the whole year. I went there last February, so it wasn't the freshest memory in my mind. And yes I am very, very lucky to have a friend that loves me enough to give me a vacation for 10 days :D
Merry Christmas to you also!!!!
@bulliontools, the HiQ Smart Bot has recognized your request (1/3) and will start the voting trail.
In addition, @snook gets !LOL from @hiq.redaktion.
For further questions, check out https://hiq-hive.com or join our Discord. And don't forget to vote HiQs fucking Witness! 😻
lolztoken.com
To arrrgh is pirate.
Credit: reddit
@snook, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of hiq.smartbot
(5/8)
@snook! @bulliontools likes your content! so I just sent 1 BBH to your account on behalf of @bulliontools. (1/20)
(html comment removed:
)
a community encouraging first-hand content, and each individual living their best life.
thank you!!
Still say moms is fukn tank. Mindless one sometimes, full on zombie mode even, but still a tank !LOLZ got mad love for ya sis, gotta make sure you good. Also glad you got to have a one on one with Briz cuz she is an amazing hostess. !PIMP
lolztoken.com
He was a terrible conductor.
Credit: reddit
@snook, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of enginewitty
(1/8)
Delegate Hive Tokens to Farm $LOLZ and earn 110% Rewards. Learn more.
Ho Ho Ho! @snook, one of your Hive friends wishes you a Merry Christmas and asked us to give you a new badge!
The HiveBuzz team wish you a Merry Christmas!
May you have good health, abundance and everlasting joy in your life.
To find out who wanted you to receive this special gift, click here!
You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
Check out our last posts: