There is something on my mind I want to share with you.

Although it is very useful and important that we read about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, there is more, much more.......

Do you realize that you have contacts through Steemit all over the world? And I mean real contact.

When you read posts written by other people, you switch from Canada to the US, to the Philippines, to India, to Madagascar, to France, even to my own region in France the Morvan, to Russia, to Nigeria, to the Netherlands were I live half of the year, to Finland, to Syria, to Reunion, to the UK (and sorry @meesterboom of course also to Scotland) to name just a few.

And it is not like reading the news in the paper. No, you really read what people living far away endure, you see pictures, not of big events (except for instance the pictures that @lordoftruth publishes about the war in Syria) but of (mostly) normal people leading (mostly) normal lives in countries far away, countries you will perhaps never visit.

You can read what they are experiencing, what they think, see pictures you will never see in the newspapers or on the news on tv. You can read news from that country that will never be on the news in your own country, like the hurricane in Madagascar (@progressivechef). And I had already read on Steemit about the drought in South Africa before it was on the news in the Netherlands.

You also see pictures from those countries of nature and of city life, you will never see in travel guides.

You see recipes from countries you have never seen recipes before.

Or listen to music you never heard before (like the Brazilian songs from @bkdbkd).

How fantastic is that?

But there is still more.

When you write a post, there are people writing comments. And those comments are also written by people from all over the world. In their comments, you can also learn about the way they think and they tell you how the situation is in their country compared to your own.

That is what I like so much about Steemit. I hope to be able to continue these contacts for a long long time. I cherish these contacts and I hope it is also the other way around.

Maybe I will be able to visit Steemfest 3 and actually meet some people with whom I have shared so much in the last one and a half year. Who knows? But for now, I am content with what I have and I thank my son @exyle for having brought me in contact with Steemit.

Have a nice day and I wish you all Happy Steeming!
Clio