My laptop has been my companion all these past few years. I can't remember when I did started using the PC but after my brother had told me that their company is selling the second-hand ones I told myself that it is a good opportunity to get one since I can't afford a a new PC for that matter.

I used the money that he is giving me for my allowance and after that I started with my journey into the realm of the Internet.

At first I was just trying to connect using a #VPN connection which is just very unstable so it was all like social media and forums. Then I had the ideation of trying to earn some money through crowdsourcing apps in Facebook where I earned cents and then a few dollars.

After that I was lucky enough to have entered a #blogging site where they are paying a cent for every view, comment, and like on the articles which I earned about maybe $2,000 and the money that I earned there I used some in some shady sites which are unfortunately just Ponzi schemes and cloudmining.

Then I was able to enter the world of cryptos where I am able to trade cryptos and it was in the months before the 2017 bull run. After that was my time here in #steemit site.

All in all I did lost some money but I did earned some which is what is important. It is a learning curve for me and I must say that without my experience with an online life I would not have survived until this day.

But my time being online so much had cost me my vision to get affected. I can also say that it is worth it though because I have earned money that I used for my expensive health conditions and in a way had saved my family from having to worry about me financially.

My vision is still okay but it has been affected greatly because of my time in the Internet. The way I am just protecting them right now is that I am lowering my PC's #brightness when I surf and blog and just adjusting it up again if I would watch some movie that I had downloaded.

I must say that even though my eyes are affected it is just worth it because being a half bed-bound handicapped person without anything that distracts me from my condition I would have done bad things already or probably had gone crazy too. Yes the Internet is good but we just have to make sure that our eyes are protected so that we will not suffer any lasting bad effects like wat happened to me.