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**L**ife is precious.
Imagine you are given a magic pair of glasses that showed you the true value within each moment of life.  Now, imagine you are walking through a beautiful botanical garden with vibrantly colored flowers rhythmically swaying in a sweet perfumey breeze with majestic green trees towering all around you.  As you gently place the magic glasses over your eyes you begin to notice that there are price tags everywhere.  Prices and dollar signs on each and every flower, every leaf and blade of glass, insects, animals, the clouds, the sky and the wind are all plastered with currency signs and numbers.  As this peaceful garden transports your soul into a state of peace and relaxation, you suddenly realize how precious life is.  You are able to see with your very own eyes and heart that everything within each moment contains infinite value.  Yes, every breath, every smile, every material and immaterial aspect of your experience is an appreciable gift in the moment.

Blockchain technology is showing us that digital assets have tradable value.  We are quickly moving into an era of digital asset (software, hardware, network) valuation and tokenization.  Ideas, time and effort are also being tokenized and revalued!  New ICO's and decentralized cryptocurrencies are unveiled each and every day.  Where is all of this taking us?  What does the future hold?

My friends, the future is very bright!  There is a reason we are currently witnessing and co-creating the greatest redistribution of wealth this planet has ever known.  Humans are learning.  Humans are learning to be present in our lives and to value each and every moment and breath.  The magic glasses are being placed upon our eyes - removing the veil of ignorance. This new awareness or collective consciousness we are rapidly adopting  is helping us to see time itself in a different manner.  The truth is, all we really have is the NOW.  This present moment  is best moment of your life, and in this moment, it literally IS the *only* moment of your life!  So, why not enjoy it and value this moment in its entirety?  Can we truly compare this moment to another when its all we truly have?

Perhaps everyone and everything has equal value.  People, places, things, emotions and experiences are  bound to a moment.  After all, we only have access to everything within our present moment experience right?  The past is a memory and the future is only an idea.  With the inherent preciousness of each and every moment, wouldn't the sum value of all players and decorations in any single moment always add up to infinity? 

With clarity, gratitude and understanding of the inherent value in all things, we are left with two choices:

1) Place a value on nothing - leaving all things in a space of gratitude and equality. (No Currency)
2) Place a value on absolutely everything.

From where we are are in global finance, choice 2 seems like a simpler evolutionary path.  The magic glasses and choice 2 reveal to us the truth of 'inherent value' also known as 'The Democratization of Money".  Look around you.  Everything you see, all that you feel, everything you know - is in fact inherently valuable; and perhaps priceless!

I Love Steemit because it is one of the first 'technologies' to recognize and acknowledge the value generation power or the beauty of its components and users.   As per Steemit, in reference to its currency generation via 'inherent value':

> 'A blockchain-based software network creates Steem dollars, to be used as currency, from loans on the value of Steem digital assets. Steem digital assets represent the ownership of this software network and have value because they're useful and they are scarce.'

Interestingly enough, it seems that every person and thing contributing to the present moment is useful and scarce simply because - in the now,  what is relevant is *that* which *is* experienced here and now.  If you are on a subway in Tokyo, then a rock on Mars would likely only have value in your imaginative daydreams yes?   In short, the democratization of money is a process by which we are removing 'usefulness and scarcity' from centralized control, and rightfully giving that value to ourselves, and to our present moment co-creators (each other).

No matter who you are, where you are or what you are doing, you have an inherent value expressed simply via interacting with and/or observing others.  Perhaps we should all have a currency account that grows in sync with each breath we take.  No worries, we are getting there! :-)

<3 

Neon

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