KEEPING RELATIONSHIPS
About 5 years ago, if I remember correctly, I had a great teacher who taught me some lessons about relationships. When people around my environment hear about relationships, their first thought is usually romantic relationships. From my teacher I learned that there are 7 currencies in the world, and money is the least of those currencies. I have learned that these currencies can be used to purchase anything money can buy and even more, making money the least of them. It was interesting to know that relationships are the third most important currency in his list, and when he began to explain the relationship part to acquiring wealth, I discovered that those people who say it’s lonely at the top are poor because true wealth isn’t determined by the amount of money you have, but the quality of people around you.
I have come to realize that both physical and digital relationships are treated the same way and have equal purchasing power depending on your circle. I remember one year into my hive journey when my account was hacked and a huge amount of HBD was withdrawn, the hacker had also initiated a powerdown, and it seemed I was on the verge of losing my account, okay not really huge but it was big money to me then. I mean it took me almost a month of work to raise 20HBD. This didn’t just happen to me, but also my onboarder and every single one of us she onboarded. It was clear that something was up because the accounts that were hacked were all under one person.
To date, I am the only one who was able to successfully get back my account and that’s all thanks to the people I knew. Funny enough I was the poorest of all of us whose account was hacked, some of them had even invested their personal money in hive hoping for it to rise, but at the end of the day I was the only one who came out with minimal losses. This wasn’t because my friends were rich, in fact I have never met any of the people who helped me recover my account to date and yet the help they have given me has changed my life tremendously. This goes to show that sustaining a good relationship and having a good name is more wealth than what money can buy. My onboarder left her account angrily because no one would help her, not even when she offered to pay them.
To date I have tried to build my connections and maintain the good relationship I have with people in my online space by offering help when I can, showing care when I can, and making them see me as someone they can trust. I have understood that the kind of relationship you have with a person will determine the kind of benefit you get from that relationship. I don’t look for these benefits by the way, and I don’t expect anything from them, I just give what I can and know somehow someday when I need help, it will come. There are those I make sure to always engage on their contents on hive, and it has gained me engagements as well. I discovered recently that I was so close to a particular hive user, but we weren’t even following ourselves on hive and it was really hilarious. We have both benefited from each other because of how valuable we have become and it’s been like that for over two years.
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 156 EPISODE 3
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That's a beautiful story and a good lesson to learn from, I've never thought of relationship as a currency too... Interesting!