I am very happy to see your joy. It would be great if I had one or two such merits. If I had a merit, I would have kept it carefully. Merit is now more than money, more than gold, more than diamond.
Merit is not what you think it is, it is not a treasure to be kept, look how it works, merits are given to you when another user thinks your post is good and informative and they agree with it or may not(effort can earn you merits too). So whenever you start posting well, and earn merits, you don't need to keep it carefully
, it doesn't decrease, what you can lose is your Smerits whenever you decide to give it out to some other user and that(smerit)also shouldn't be hoarded.