A believer in the teardrop token, more views about the steemit campus invasion and a contest for 1 lucky winner
Hello everyone!
this is going to be a short one
So apologies in advance for those expecting a long and unwinding post, Ill be doing one tomorrow.
Funny thing is, I doubt anyone reads the posts I drop to the end, the long ones I mean, but that doesnt stop me from posting them still. Its just my nature I guess.
For a few days now, my activities had been rather low on the blockchain, this was/is no accident. In recent times, the rate at which I had experienced data challenges and issues based on electricity has quadrupled. Its been increasingly difficult to access steemit and in some cases, had to sit outside in the night and in a frigging chill weather because I couldnt find a network.
Its annoying, its tiring, its weird, especially when you have to explain to vigilantes that youre not involved in any form of 419 scam. But no matter the obstacle that seems to come my way, I have always found a way toovercome.
This actually lead me to write this post.
Teardrops, a drop for your effort! Proof of tears!
Scrolling through my pile of messages om steemit.chat, I found out that I had missed a very interesting update by my boss, @surpassinggoogle.
This post, now two days old, is about an SMT called @teardrops which will be launched by @surpassinggoogle along side other SMTs. Now its not the coin that interests me, but the initiative behind the coin!
If this had been done by any other person, I would have immediately dismissed it as another attempt to get money from steemit.
But boss terry has shown and proven himself to have the people at heart!The token gets its name from the tears that every human has ever shed.
For a teardrop is a symbol in humanity. One thing that we all recognizes. It embodies in its little form, the emotions and feelings we express at that particular moment.
Many shed tears for different reasons, some for joy, some for sadness, some for a restoration in hope and other still for a failure of their plans.
Life presents us with different situations at which we shed tears for and I believe this is what terry seeks to embody. Nothing makes us more human than the ability to express our emotions.
Often times, we are caught up with the steeming and the typing and the autonomous nature of which the blockchain operates and we need a reminder of our humanity.
The proof of tears, tears that shows who we are.
There is a saying where I'm from, that the rich also cry. Everyone has that which they shed for. So lets get this going!
Community engagment via a campus movement
A quick google search will show you that we have well over 200 higher institutions in nigeria, all catering for more than 100m youths in the country.
In a country like ours, teeming with youths of every ag, its a pity that we suffer from what I would call a lack of interest in development from the leaders.
And so in order to ensure students, youths have something to do after school, I brought up this program to Integrating steemit, entertainment and business on campuses in one accord.
By the 4th of February, I and the team will be heading to otefe branch of the delta state polytechnic, Delta state, Nigeria.
With this, we hope to give you all a prelude of what is to come when we start the campus invasion fully!
The following is an exempt from a post I made 13 days ago
So yeah, ladies and gentlemen, this is exactly what I have been planing. For months now, I had been trying to find a way to bridge the gap that I noticed when it comes to steemit.
In the coming months, I(@destinysaid) (@africaunchained), along side 4 companies on the steemit blockchain, @leadent360, @steemit-virus @debrecords, @mediahousent(our long time host and MC) are working towards a campus invasion movement.
Rather than just organizing meet-ups and all that, we are moving towards showcasing what steemit and the steem blockchain is capable of doing. We are utilizing the steem blockchain in a way that the developers never imagined it to be used. Providing entertainment values. Providing entertainment service and businesses initiatives to grow via the steem blockchain and cryptocurrencies in general.
In this initiative, we will be going to different campuses across Nigeria and Africa(thanks to the kenyan and ghanian community liasons), where we will be forming partnership with entertainment bodies and businesses in these said campuses to host an event tagged Steemit:The invasion(or any other name we so choose).
These events will happen across the countries at different time dictated by the school calendar.
In these said events, we will have dance sections, music and artist performances, afrolized theatricals, creative exhibitions(where people showcase their creations), food and snack services to keep fans from going hungry. Of cause, anything that can be bought, will have an option to be bought with steem or sbd.
I cant wait to move ahead and steem up the country!
Proof of love 12 sbd contest, recommended for but not limited to rep 58 and below!
I resonated with the teardrops message by surpassinggoogle. I really did, so I decided to throw a little contest for those that have been shedding tears of loneliness, joy, heartbreak, new love, sadness,happiness in this one-time-contest about love, peace and comedy.
Now before I continue I must state that this is my own way of spreading fun around once on a while. As much as I earn,, I try to giveback to those who gaveto me.
The last contest I did, I gave out 30sbd and 20 teem(or was it the other way around?!)
This contest however, will only have one winner,and the process of selection are by votes.
In this contest, the goal is to list a senerio that you experienced, that made you restore your hope in humanity and our way of life. An experience that made you go;
''WOW. MAYBE THE HUMAN RACE ISNT SO BAD AFTERALL''
Thaats all!
Rules of the contest
- You must resteem this post
- You must be 100% awesome
- You must comment story on the comment section of this post
- Comment with the highest vote wins
- Your comment must be shorter than 200 words but longer than 25 words
- You must be having fun!
What can i say bro, oh how you got my message; it is touching. It wasn't entirely about the tears in that post. It was "human" i was talking about and the whole endeavor is to help us re-tap into the awesomest version of human which according to me is gift to humanity every and each time. I say re-tap for many who have entered outerspace and left down-to-earth and tap for many who would do great things, evolving in their substance. It is all tied "steemgigs" where everyone has something to offer; untalented curriculum that involves in the process by reminding us that we are genius and rewarding attempts at out-of-the-boxness, then the interface that will be on https://surpassinggoogle.com that plays out these things together making each person celebs which should be the case in the real world than in the painted world where inanimate characters like superman and batman and crypto-kittens can even have more value than human and a token Teardrops that will have one of the simplest whitepapers ever creating a revolutionary coin that every human can related to whether crypto-inclined or crypto-novice and one that can get celebs interested for its special usecase built on steem that already has the reward model and reputation model and blockchain capability to make it possible. It is going to be a hard route but i am driven . I heard it was being discussed on a crypto-exchange chat recently. I hope we can pull this off. Doing more research and using the untalented curriculum to evolve the whitepaper and structure. I am broken i wont lie, physically but we will push these playful looking thing into full-blown life.
I have been hearing about you @surpassinggoogle.. I must say @eurogee talks alot about you to us his latest recruits into this platform.
We are in the era of sharing and that i have seen you do. Virtually every newbie has been resteem by you all this is because of the selfless nature of you.
Thank you so much for your write up. They are inspiring ...
Permit me to also appreciate some people respect on this platform They make things happen and i see them all as mentors..
Also, hoping that @blocktrades, @curie, @papa-pepper, @surpassinggoogle, @bayanihan, @steemgigs, @steemph , @acidyo, @purepinay, @marlon82, @reyarobo, @carine1988, @freshbeauty
would appreciate this post.
Those vigilantes are somehow annoying
Please I need your upvote https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@davizoe/introducing-myself-on-steemit-9f5a99c2828a3
this wont help you
Thanks boss, your act of selflessness is unimaginable, I pray big for the tokens, and at the same time, I pray will all get the attention of the serious minded people to make the project a success and to make "Human" valuable.
God is your strength. That is all i can mutter right now to you.
WOW, MAYBE THE HUMAN RACE ISNT BAD AT ALL
I entered into steemit in July 2017 and found @euronation team. Somehow, i lost my master password. All attempt to find it failed. I decided to tell @eurogee my @euronation team leader . Immediately he swung into action. He adviced I write steemit support team. But steemit support wrote me that steemit is in beta mode and cannot handle lost password case.
I was unhappy. I lost 128 SBD and steems worth over 500k. I cried. But then @eurogee, adviced that i start afresh.
Upon making my re-introduction post, then i knew that WOW, THE HUMAN RACE ISNT BAD AT ALL. Why? Many steemians especially @euronation members assisted me. They want to help me recover my account. Immediately they asked a member to meet me physically to help find the hidden password in my laptop. Euronation members sent me steems/SBDs, even @eurogee, sent steems and SBD both from his account and the team's account. Moreso, he told members to blog about it and share earnings with me. Really the human race isnt bad at all. Thanks @destinysaid and @surpassinggoogle
Its good to work with the right team,it pays!
Wow, this is touching. Thank God they were able to help. @adoore-eu
Thanks so much ma
Mama Mia
Hmmm ... I could also imagine that feeling
We we are proud of you as one of us and will always identify with you.
Wow!!! The bond in the community is great
Firm
The best team @euronation
Glad am part of it!!!
We'll stick together.
That's what a team stands for... All for one and one for all. Its nice to know you're enjoying blogging again.
We stand for our own!!!
Team work pays!
When the journey first started,it was as if heaven wont take my cry of supplication bcs i saw people earning alot but all ds cents i do earn wont make my dream be as i i planned it?? But thanks to @eurogee. Weldone @adoore-eu. The human race isnt bad but how do humans handle their races???
I gave you some tear drop tokens dear @adoore-eu.
100% upv by Dr. George
#AIR-CLINIC
One love keep us together
I feel sorry for what had happened. But I know you will gain all that you have lost.
Wow, you have encountered really wonderful people here..
We are all different but unique. In our little ways of doing things. The members of @nation and @eurogee are awesome
Well said, the community is a great one.
wow. this is a super story. don't worry dear. 2018 u shall recover all u lost ten times over
I'm glad you had friends on standby to give a helping hand. Success
You're with the right team. You will surely recover.
Very sorry about your loss.It's really painful. Thank God you had the support of a wonderful community- @euronation, in your time of distress.
I'm sure you've taken the necessary precautions to avoid a repeat of such an incidence.
Keep striving, you will soon recover all you've lost!
The Human Race Isn't That Bad
I left for Abuja from Delta State, 2015 for my youth service, without knowing anyone, with no money, with no idea how life is over in Abuja, the three weeks in camp went bye like a flash, and then reality kicked in, with little money of about 18,000 naira, I was lost on what to do, the ministry I was posted to weren't accepting corpers as the new minister hasn't been assigned and we had to wait four weeks before requesting a repost from the zonal coordinator. Where do I live became a problem, 18,000 isn't enough to feed let alone think of renting an apartment., so accommodation and feeding was a problem but thank God for NCCF, they took many of us in, and fed us, until we are stable enough.
On this platform I've seen so many reasons to be hopeful, first @surpassinggoogle is like a big brother to us all, looking for ways to see we all make it, @swissclive building users creatively and rewarding hardwork, @annonymousdonor helping fellow Steemers in a way beyond everyday norm @greenman helping local vendors, my steemlife had been truly remarkable and filled with hopes for a better tomorrow. May each tear never go unrewarded @teardrops token
This is so touching
Thanks bro.
nice one bro
Thanks bro
Good job bro...
Thanks bro.
Awwwn nice
Thanks
Nccf new covenant if am right???
Wow! What a story
Thanks
As i was reading throiugh, it was as if i want to cry...
Having just passed through the NYSC scheme myself...I can well relate with your feelings..... Thank God for those who began NACC, NCCF and MCAN associations....
they're like home away from home when we find ourselves in strange lands
Absolutely right, I felt home all through my stay.
I hope you can be a guide to others just like these guys who you mentioned are to you
I hope so bro, it's the plan , to support as as many as I can
Awwwn, this is so touching...
You will make it in life dear
By God's grace...Amen
My last thought on Africans'future.
For a very long time, living my life in Africa as an African, I never thought Africans could be rich in the future even when I see the riches we have that it isn't going round, "the rich keeps getting richer while the poor keeps getting poorer". My usual thought has been... Who would turn the table around? How can we turn the table around?. But, thank God Steemit crept in, and I was able to give my last thought on the Africans future... "If the decentralized world of cryptocurrency could help me make it without the help of the oppressors from Africa, then the Africans future is the brightest cos we "Die Hard".... Great thanks to @destinysaid for this great opportunity.
Alot of that change will come with this: "humanity is the brother next to you" and the true application of steemit in bringing about this change is in "developing the substance of the human and stubbornly attaining the awesomest version of you, for the awesomest version of you is a gift to humanity every and each time". Now steemit is modelled to obliviously help us accomplish both things above but seeing steemit in this light speeds it all up.
Thanks brotherly boss.
We gat your back bro. Your point was expressed explicitly. In as much as I would have love to contest too, I want to give others the opportunity to air views.
I'm more of a reader than a writer and I admire the effort of @destinysaid and @surpassinggoogle towards transforming steemit.
This is just the beginning of greater exploits.
Thanks boss, very right of you. I pray a great success for @surpassinggoogle and his team for the project.
Thanks boss, very right of you. I pray a great success for @surpassinggoogle and his team for the project.
My turn has come. I eagerly step past the door, sit down and breathe a sight of relief. The rush came through me like flood water coming out of a gate. Maybe it's just something I ate, maybe it's not. When everything is said and done, I look to my side only to see there's nothing left. A single empty cylinder. No word of warning, no sign of help.
They said when you're at your lowest point, you're open to the greatest change. Caught between a piece of porcelain and locked door, contemplating should I make a run for it, panic sets over me. Will I suffer humiliation, shame, disgust, contempt or worse?
I close my eyes, breathe in deeply and ready myself. Three taps on the separator startles me then I see a hand gently put a roll of paper under. "I used them all, sorry". "Thank you". "You're welcome".
Sometimes you will only appreciate small gestures when you're caught with your pants down and no where to go. I guess "MAYBE THE HUMAN RACE ISN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL"
The human race isn't so bad afterall
WOW THE HUMAN RACE ISN'T SO BAD.
In 2013, when i was still in secondary school. I actually lost my dad at a very young age, we lost all we had to our father's people (as their custom demanded). My mom was blamed for the death of my dad and she had to go through all those traditional rites😟😟. I had to stop school for almost a year+, i started selling on the streets just to make ends meet, we were four boys in the family and none of us was in school because we had nothing again. All hope was lost for us all.
But God willing, i came across an online scholarship which finally became a success, i was happy because i could finally go back to school and things started turning positive. We were able to gather more money for education and feeding, but now we're living happily now.
I'm currently in the university.
Eyaa, so touching bro. I feel like crying.
Don't worry, the God who has seen you through will skyrocket you to the Zenith bro. You're destined to reign.
Thanks bro
Thanks @surpassinggoogle
Wow, so touching...
What I like is that you never gave up, you stood up and eventually became great..
Yhh thanks
So sorry man buh tnk God u took up d challenge nd here u are...... Kip d flag high
Awwww sorry Bro, thank God for coming to for you.. You are a born winner!
Awesome! 👍
Don't worry dear, God will see you through
I am very happy for you and your family, it is always important to fight and strive to achieve happiness, in addition to that thank God for all the opportunities he gives us. My message to you ... "After the bad, the good always comes" Success!
God always got out back.
I remember the pains that comes with writing JAMB twice after 3years of Secondary education. The annoying part was writing POST UTME, getting a very nice score and succeeding in going through one admission list after another, until the obvious is realized, TRY AGAIN NEXT TIME.
It was as if JAMB saved my name on the database because thrice I sat for JAMB, I got same score ( over 200). I almost gave up pursuit of higher education after sitting twice for JAMB until I decided to give it a last try.
Coming from the Southern part of Nigeria, we were brought up to have dislike for people from the Northern part. My parents however, taught me to accept people as individuals without judging them based on tribe or ethnicity. Remembering that led to my seeking for admission in a Northern federal institution after defeated outings within my cachement area.
My first time to the North was possible courtesy of another POST UTME, as events will turn out, a NORTHERN guy took me in and catered for me.
After that, I looked at the world and thought within me, "WOW. MAY BE THE HUMAN RACE ISN'T SO BAD AFTERALL"
The human race isn't so bad.
Thanks so much for the votes my lords. @surpassinggoogle, I sight you boss.
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WOW. MAYBE THE HUMAN RACE ISNT SO BAD AFTERALL'
My Dad is not literate so after my secondary education, i wanted to further but he told me that he isn't willing to pay what it takes to further (even when i knew that he could afford it) that i should learn a trade.
I was stubborn and decided to get the JAMB form ( which is what is required to get into tertiary schools) with my little savings.
I got admission into college of education Zaria in Kaduna, Nigeria and my troubles began. I had to work a part time teaching job while running a full time program in Biology/chemistry education to pay my fees. I could not live in campus because that would be suicidal already so i was going to school from the house.
At times, i won't have transport fare and would have to trek a very long distance ( am not good with measuring distance but for its pretty long walking from Sabon gari LGA to Kongo i.e if you know zaria). At times, after having a stressful lecture filled day, i still had to walk home weeping and thinking that i have been deserted by my ancestors. At a point, i felt like taking my own life.
After awhile, i don't know how a friend of my dad had about my predicament and started to see to it that i didn't have much financial difficulty so i could study properly and i did.
My Dad later saw that his friend was funding me and it affected his pride and he decided to also fund me. I got the certificate from the college and went further to study in the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
Yea, MAYBE THE HUMAN RACE ISN'T SO BAD AFTERALL
"The human race isn't so bad afterall"
Thanks a lot @ surpassing google, wanderlass, bait002.MAYBE THE HUMAN RACE ISN'T SO BAD AFTERALL
I've witness many scenarios that do restore and strengthen my hope in humanity and our way or life. I am a lover of humanity and peace, and I detest cheating. So I will share my story.
It happened thay I was walking down my street in Ogun state, Nigeria, where I was serving my counry. A police officer, standing few metres away from his coleagues called me in "eh! Come over here tone". I didn't want to answer due to the way I was called, but I respect the Uniform and move closer.
I said "good morning" and he replied me with "is that how to greet"? I was shocked! He then asked me qustions about who am I and where I am coming from. I simply told him that I am coming from the "Copper's Lodge ", where I slept in order to charge my phone, and I'm heading to my house.
He came up with unreasonable excuses that there is environmental sanitation and I shouldn't be working around. I told him, "my house is over there" pointing to the direction of my house. And before I could say Jack Robinson, he had held me so tight by my pant.
I was confused, I even told him I am a Corps member, he did not even know the meaning. He called other and they manhandled me to their station. I was tired and the same time confused, because I can't even place what happened to me. They wanted to force me to write a statement and I refused, telling them I did no wrong.
A senior officer came in and asked about me, I was suprised when they said I was resisting arrest and he said they should have handle me with tougher hands and asked them to confiscate my mobile phone. He didn't ask of my offence ooO. Then I lost hope, I was crying with the latent tears all over my eyes.
About 1 hour later, some people arrived the Police station and demanded they release me with immediate effect, that I didn't do anything wrong. I was like "who are this people"? Most of those officers who arrested me had disappeared into thin air. The officer on counter had no choice than to release me when he saw the agitation and desperation of those people.
The oficers that were around pleaded on behalf of their coleagues. I was very happy at this moment and these people turned out to be those watching the drama between me and the police officer at the point of my arrest.
They had mobilized themselves just to rescue me from the police. They were afraid the police could harm me. I was very happy that day.
This made me to believe more in our humanity because they fought for me. Let's keep fighting for each other for the day we stop fighting for each other, that's the day we lose our humanity.
I am @shakz and this is my teardrop experience. Thank you!
The awesome personality himself. You are just selflessness personified.. Salutions the boss
Hey man, I thank God for you. This is really touching!
Go and win!!!