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My journey through #thebeast challenge

ksolymosiPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago3 min read

Dear Fellow Beasts,

It is the last day, and I feel a little bit sorry that this 10 days have passed. When I first saw @velaris making her first post in #thebeast it was completely new for me... (Unfortunately I missed it on Steemit earlier.)

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I read the instructions @lexiwitness, @merej99 and @lexikon082 put forward and I was thinking... are they crazy??? Writing 7 posts was not a challenge for me, I write 2-3 posts everyday, but 500 meaningful comments???? My post-count at that time was about 500 - but I have been around for over a month! How can I double that in 10 days????

It seemed impossible first but I was so much in love with the idea that I gave it a second thought and said: why not? What could be the worst that happens? Maybe I cannot cross the finish-line ... but I've tried at least!

So I jumped in, and I have to tell, I never felt regret for that decision, not even for a single moment. Despite the fact that these 10 days turned out to be super-busy at work and sometimes I arrived home extremely late. I have made a schedule and I managed to keep that. My plan was to make a #thebeast post almost every day (I gave myself two days off when it seemed impossible) and make 50 comments per day (a little bit more at the beginning where the work-load wasn't that big and a little bit less on the days that were fully packed).

I remember the first day... it seemed so hopeless to make those 50 comments... I was sitting in the bed and counting... only 23, only 35... OMG it will never be 50! And then people started answering, wonderful conversations have started and when I looked up I already made 61 comments! 😁

This is the summary of my statistics at the moment (31 October, 18:00 CET):

  • posts written for the challenge with #thebeast tag: 8 (including this one)
  • other posts (not qualifying for the challenge): 18
  • comments made: 512

It was really great, a high-level engagement, nice conversations with awesome people I have never met before, wonderful, thought-provoking comments on my posts, lot's of positive feedback.

Dear Fellow Beasts! I really owe you a lot! Thank you for this common journey! I enjoyed every minute of it! You are really awesome!



And I know that this will not end here... We are already having the beat... we have the beast inside that keeps us going... so let's continue, let's move forward! 😁


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And finally a great thank you, handclaps, bouquets and champagne for @merej99 and @lexikon082 (as well as @lexiwitness) to put this supernatural effort into keeping this challenge on track! Brilliant idea and superb execution! Congratulations!


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