August 6, 2022
Image from Unsplash by Malicki M Beser
What's upsetting to someone who has a blogging goal is when she gets sick and her mind seems to want to rest as well and doesn't want to work. It's been my daily routine to write an article each day before the day ends. But now that I am not well yet, I couldn't seem to collect my thoughts to form them into one content as they seem to be scattered elsewhere.
Each day, I can think of what topic to write about but it's only up to the heading, with no following content. Each time I would collect my thoughts, they would suddenly fade into the thin air and it would leave me hanging empty and unproductive. This is not me, I am not used to it. I don't procrastinate, I don't end a day without writing one. But, I am sick so I have to accept it.
Drafts are being taken down one by one and I worried to see an empty feed one day. A few have been used on another platform, and a few left for this platform. But despite the sickness, I couldn't keep myself from checking what's up online. How things are doing and people around.
Although sometimes my mind would scold me for not letting my eyes and hands off my phone. I guess this is another sickness to treat, being too productive becomes an addiction. What else can I do? I have no one to manage my online stuff when I'm sick, but me alone?
Albeit, I am trying to lessen my virtual interaction just to satisfy what my body is yearning for, more rest. I would push myself to put away my phone and I would close my eyes until I drifted off to sleep. But sometimes it fails as work is still waving that I need to resume.
Continuous grinding despite the sickness, that's my bitter fate abroad. Prior to being sick, I signed up for an application as a curator on another platform under a team I became close to interacting with. Unexpectedly, I got a comment the night before yesterday from one of the staff of that team saying that I was chosen as a guest curator.
Among all applicants, only 2 will be chosen each month as guest curators, and I never thought I would be chosen as I am not that active on the discord server, but I am a regular user of this front-end. I know it's a one-time opportunity that I shouldn't miss, so I grabbed it. Besides, that was what I yearned for, to experience how to become a curator even just for a month.
I'm not after the rewards but the experience and to see how curators work on that platform. To put the matter in a nutshell, I just added more stuff to my plate, another hustling to spend time with.
Should I do this or not? The options were racing in my mind and whichever reached the line first would be my decision. Thinking about curating, I know it's just reading so my mind says to take the opportunity and as Melinda said, I can do it at any time I want to. Quality over quantity, that's what matters most.
So yesterday, I started my new side hustle as a guest curator on Ecency, one of the front-ends of Hive. I thought it was just as easy as reading an article and checking its authenticity and quality, but there are other things I actually need to consider when curating, that is to check the reputation of the writer if he/she is performing well or not, or just a spaminator. Making the wrong curation will also affect my reputation, especially once I curated a post owned by a spammer or low-quality content.
Dubiously, I started with two posts that I thought were good, followed by the rest, and I have to make 10 to 15 times a day in my available time as Melinda implied. Eventually, I get hold of it while cautiously choosing the content I want to curate. At the end of the first day, I was uncertain of how many I curated as I didn't count them. That was a mistake I made because if I exceeded the given number of content I need to curate, they might think I am abusing the opportunity they delegated to me.
You might ask why I am doing this stuff even though I am sick. Again, it's just reading and voting, nothing more.
But why am I still writing like this one when I need to rest? Every time my mind is at peace and my body is unproductive, a lot of thoughts are entering my head that I need to express before they get congested. Or else, there'll be no positivity left and they might be converted into negative ones.
Others are probably sick of reading my posts, I can tell. But bear with me until I fully recovered. Still, I appreciate those who stop by to give their comments.
Thank you.
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Congrats ate! Hehe. You deserve it. But take a rest if you have a lot of free time din