You seem to have realized your dream. Honestly I still have mixed feelings on Steemit, I get your point how it is helping in more than one way. My vocabulary gone up a lot since I started here, besides that I am slowly building up a "network" and make money in the same time. But it is this last factor, "the money" which also changes the motivation in a sorts of greed. Anyways I am still learning and sort of finding my place into all of this...