It's always like the 'First Time'

every time I log in to Steemit.

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It's like I'm ...
Kind of a total stranger to this new social media platform.
Someone unknown or yet to be known.
A #minnow in this vast ocean, that still has a lot of waves to venture.

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Reintroducing Me.

I've introduced myself twice now here on Steemit.

However, all the while I talked about my background and not much about my current interests, why and how I was introduced to Steemit and when I grew building curiosity on this platform and officially started.

Well to start it off...

I was introduced to Steemit by a dear friend of mine, Johanna Gail Tongco (@gailbelga).
My family and hers have a close relationship for a long time now. She's more like a sister to me and we pretty much grew together in the same church.

I wanna thank her for sharing this wonderful community to me and for continually inspiring me to keep on writing. She's a ray of sunshine and I am blessed to have known her.

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Story of My Life.

I have always been an open book.

A story willing to be told to those who are ready to lend an ear or to those who could spare their time to read.

My name is Lyle Justine Laid, a 21 year-old Regional Product Trainer in Amway. Residing in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

I love to play and listen to old songs, write feature articles and poems, read mystery and educational books and go on adventures.

I love love love to travel, go on road trips, sail the seas and ride airbuses. Take pictures on wonderful sceneries, capture smiles on people's faces. Hug trees and simply be in awe with the wonderful creations of God.

What intrigued me to join Steemit

I have been ignited to sign myself up on this platform because I always wanted to blog.

My previous blogs didn't seem to click to many people, 'twas because it lacked advertising and time to grow. I wasn't that dedicated to it as well because I had a lot of things to attend to during the time I started it. Also, I knew I needed to learn more about blogging and had to up my game.

When Ate Doods (aka Johanna Gail, @gailbelga - "ate" means older sister) encouraged me to join Steemit and told me that it's way better than any other social media sites, I was quickened to look it up on the web. I searched for Steemit and read a few reviews and backgrounds about it and studied a little about how it works.

Last December I decided to finally sign up and give it a shot, with the thought that maybe right here I'd finally put my writing skills to good use by sharing my previous works and starting to write new ones as well.

I am yet to discover more about Steemit

With the little knowledge I gained through the short time I had spent here, I knew there is more to Steemit than just being noticed and be famous.

I knew that in this medium, people would come together to learn and grow about everything under the sun. Sharing life experiences, new discoveries, starfish stories and throwbacks about some retro facts.

I knew this isn't gonna be just another blog site but a community building platform. Uniting people in unleashing potentials and cultivating a greater way to enhance human life and inspiring to do life big by helping each other live better lives.

"With the stories I have packed with me for my journey here on Steemit, the very thing I can serve to the people here are life-changing and heart warming truths of my walk with Jesus and inspiring pages of the lives of the people that I have encountered."

Walk with me.

Hand in hand let us all make this community more vibrant, springing with life and joy.

Let us all write and write to our heart's content, with each post filled with sense and passion. Bringing each readers new ideas and a good-read blog, igniting them to do better themselves. Trigger aspiration and not just competition.

A healthy competition is good.

However, keep in mind that ...

"Winning isn't the very thing that matters, learning is."

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P.S. That's all I have for you Lovies, More power and blessings to us all. Aja!

Here's my best post so far, Introducing me :)
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@jcatalyst/so-here-it-goes