With today's article I just want to share how magical Steemit is and my experience with steemit.

It all started four months back, a close friend of mine who always helped me in choosing new currencies and also told me about how crypto market behaves told me about Steemit. <br><center>![DQmaZSFwnXESmdTjyV3psoMZfZdBjdht8pfUzDvosaqS9Mw.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaZSFwnXESmdTjyV3psoMZfZdBjdht8pfUzDvosaqS9Mw/DQmaZSFwnXESmdTjyV3psoMZfZdBjdht8pfUzDvosaqS9Mw.png)</center><center>*Steemit- The Magic of Blogging*</center><br>

He said steemit is a blogging platform like wordpress and I can write and share my articles here and the result will be much more better as I get paid handsomely. For first, I just thought to myself that how can a website give any currency as a reward, it all sounded fake. But then I logged in steemit and wrote my first post. At that time, I got few steem in my account. 

In September, the value of steem was 1.5 USD, so I didn't bother to transfer it. For four months, I did not write anything at all and got busy with work pressure and stuff. Finally, I logged two days back and saw my account was worth four times now.  I was pleasantly surprised, and finally learned how to shift steemit to an exchange and transferred it. Boom, it came in few minutes and my portfolio increased. 

I felt happy and motivated to write more. So I wrote an article of my recent trip to [Ladakh](https://steemit.com/travel/@raghavgakhar/trip-to-ladakh-land-of-lama-himalayas-and-snow) which is a beautiful place. I wrote a 1000 word article including some very amazing pictures. It did well and I had 140 upvotes in 24 hours, I earned around 150 USD. 

I updated my Facebook status about how I made the money and motivated three others to leave wordpress and switch to Steemit and they have signed up and await approval. 

That's huge, I see Steemit as something which can be huge in coming years. It's just feels like a free world, I create content, I get valuable steem power, and steem dollars. If this is not full value of your hard work then what is?

How was your feeling when you started initially on steemit? I see people here are very helpful and I hope the steemit community keeps on growing bigger and bigger. I plan to hold my <i>Steem</i> for long term.

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I have decided to be more active on steem and share the experiences of my life and also to motivate all the writers I know to start writing on steemit. I feel there is a long way to go and we all are ready! 

Side note- Thanks for reading. If you connect with my thoughts, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.  Also, tell me what are your favourite topics to blog about.