Hang in there @acidyo Sometimes it is good to take a break, step back look at the bigger picture and get re-inspired. This is the cycle of crypto, and can be exhausting going from the highs to the lows and back again. Anyhow, take care. 

It definitely is time for some self-care. Some days I feel burned out too, but every time I take a walk outside and zoom out and look at it from that perspective I can't feel anything else but admiration and respect for this invention called Steem. 

*So I keep on going.*

As will you - since I'm working in OCD I can see even better how passionate and involved you are with Steem - kuddos for all that you do. 

*Now go take a rest and shitpost your way through the last days of the 75/25 era - will we reminisce about 'the good old times' in a few months or look back appalled by how stupid we were to think we had it good? :D*

Keep your head up. There are way worse things, than any materialistic thing, out there..

For example a mother, who destroys her family. Even though she has 5 kids..
And a Dad who is working until death..

*Life is great.*

Never a bad plan to step back and rejuvenate.

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Your title and that image says it all doesn’t it? I saw it and am like *”yep, I know where this is going”* and sure enough acid needs some *acid time*. 

I think it’s important to design life in the way we would like it to be and sometimes that gets derailed by commitment to work, family, relationships, finances...steem etc. 

Taking time to look after oneself, to recharge or just find some peace is vital. We only get one turn on this ride we call life. Best make it a good one. 

Even the fastest Formula 1 car has to pull into the pits for service at some point. 

Enjoy your short break. 

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Breaks are good. Look after yourself, cid <3

.... and somehow this reminds me that my last post was 7 days ago, and i should try to at least post once a week...... specially before hf21.... ghhhh *drags self to draw sommit*

THANKS YO~ XD

At this very moment I am writing about hf21, clarifying doubts. Of course, doubts that I can handle, because I'm relatively new around here.

But I want to contribute my grain of sand. The Latino community still has many doubts about the advantages proposed by the new update.

Finally, well deserved you have that rest. don't delay!

You certainly deserve and should take a break from time to time. I've only been on this platform for one and a half year and I notice that there are not many good people around who look out for others. Less even those who are good and stick around, most of us become jaded and disillusioned and or quit. 

That's also the reason why I think the good ones who are still here and fighting the good fight are awesome =).

Have a nice break 
and Kit Kat (つ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)つ

Yes, steem has much potential but in the end we dont know whats gonna happen. Its sad to see my account balance go to shit but im gonna stick with steem and will not be leaving because of this.

Right before reading this, I got off the phone with @lovejoy and my friend @thomaskuntzart, and echoes many of the same sentiments. I JUST bought $1000 of STEEM at $0.20, entirely sure this couldn’t be a bad decision, and I’m reeling from the new low as of today. I’m not worried, though. One thing you mentioned that I’ve felt for a while now is it can’t get much worse. That’s problematic for onboarding new users and generating enthusiasm, but for those of us that’ve stayed active and vigilant, it’s easy to see an upside. Development is busy and the new STEEM team is really firing on all pistons.

Steem is definitely bigger than all of us ! It is way ahead of its time if you ask me. Stable coin, stake /delegation features , social media. It’s obvious other projects have taken pages out of  steem’s book. The only thing steem doesn’t have is the price action and I feel that’s good as the current development is  taking place under the radar and then BOOM!  

I have come to the conclusion that people don’t invest in projects per say, they invest in the people behind it , they clearly see who is behind EOS , ETH and tron ... here, the investors aren’t sure. 

Take that break and enjoy :)

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Take a break, re-group and you'll come back stronger bro.

I think many of us feel exactly the same way of our past, present, and even future here!  As many say, if it was easy, everyone would do it but we are still early adopters in this journey to really create value for our attention like we deserve as a community.

I like Steem...but I'm not gonna invite anyone here until they work more on fixing it. Part of that is making it easier for people to come in and do development work so people can fix the problems here.

But I did invite people here. Mostly they said no, which may have been a good thing, since this place is kinda messed up and not working right. Some people I know from elsewhere on the web are on here though...and most of them quit.

I keep waiting for them to implement changes to make it better...and the best we get is HF21...

I like this place...and I believe it shows promise...but I feel like there are very real reasons that we crashed so hard and still haven't recovered much. I feel like if we had worked on addressing the issues and implementing more advancements, we would have been able to hold up to the crash like certain other cryptos did. Sure, maybe having a low price is good for traders that managed to pick up more, and people with a lot of spare cash...but here we are on a platform with very real problems, hoping the price will recover, and no great plan to help it.

After HF21, we'll have to see how that effects this place, see what changes need to be made after that, complain that it didn't really solve the problems, waiting another few months for them to get some other changes together for a HF, etc.

I don't think that we even necessarily need big changes. A bunch of small ones could have probably made the whole thing a lot better.

They just set themselves up as the ones that were going to do all the development pretty much and discouraged development from the community, and now we're here.

I'm hopeful that we'll have changes and price will recover, but I'm not nearly as hopeful as I was a year ago. And it's not even really to do with the price. It has to do with the feeling that there isn't really anyone here that is willing to fix this place. There are plenty of people working on their side projects, some of which are cool, but are they adopting even the suggestions from the community that were made so long ago? Things they actually said they were gonna work on...

Steem showed amazing promise...but at this point, I wonder if it may be better if a group of devs does a fork for development and makes it more open to community development and maybe then we can fork some of those changes back in.

I know everyone is tired of the complaining...but...here we all are...we're on this ship...and we're basically just waiting for them to fix the engine. And there are all these engineers here, and they have the engine compartment closed off, after months ago saying they would let us in a bit more.

I feel like we're at this price for a reason.

I personally am staying here and continuing to try and continuing to hope that they will fix the issues...but that hope is slipping away.

Good luck in your time off or whatever you decide to do to take a breather a bit. Sorry for my usual long-windedness.