I am an internet entrepreneur living in Bielefeld, Germany, and committed to creating a dream life - not only for myself, but for everyone in the world.
I am sharing my apartment with the woman of my dreams, our two cats and some fifty fishes.
As a child, I was highly interested in the german children’s book series “Burg Schreckenstein (Castle Schreckenstein)”. It’s about a residential school in a castle where the children adopted the values of the old knights, including fairness, honesty and responsibility for what they have done. They don’t cheat in tests, live in partnership with their teachers, they truly help each other - in short: they do what they believe in no matter what others think about them. And to be honest, I wanted to belong to them, wanted to be part of such a great community.
As a teen I was infected by “Star Trek - The Next Generation”. What fascinated me most (despite the fact that this society was also built around strong values) was that there was no need for money, or working for it. Everybody was provided with everything they needed, and production was mostly automated. So everybody was free to concentrate on what they felt attracted to - and to work on their self-actualization. This concept naturally resonated with me - and I started dreaming and visioning…
I had a computer before, but now I connected it to the phone line and started hanging around in bulletin board systems, and later in the internet. There I found places and areas where my vision seemed to be true.
Soon I found out that I’m not alone, that there are others who have the same vision - and are working on making it true. I saw people from all over the world connecting - and from that moment on, I wanted to join them.
But I got sidetracked over and over again - until now.
As a baby, I was open to the world, active, and really a happy child that was developing above average. But when I grew older, something changed suddenly. I turned inside and went into hiding, so to say. I panicked when I was forced to meet a stranger (that was virtually everybody I haven’t seen at least once a week for my whole life or so…), and in the Kindergarten, I would always hold the hand of one of the kindergarten teachers, and I rarely played with other children.
In elementary school, I finally found some two friends, but I always had the feeling that I was somehow different, that I didn’t belong where I was. It was as if I was put on the wrong planet, and everybody around me belonged to some other, strange and unknown race. This feeling continued throughout my whole school life, and only now I am beginning to understand.
I had a rough time back then, but things got worse when I came to comprehensive school. My classmates were harassing me, and I went through some very dark years, until I finally learned some basic socializing-skills (like smoking and drinking beer together…), and bought me some friends - or I thought they were… That worked quite well until I finished school and went to university, where my social life dropped to zero again. But I didn’t care, because I went there because of the lectures, and not because of the people. One year later, when I changed subjects from Physics to Philosophy and History, I was picked up by a woman who remembered me from our old school. Soon I became her boyfriend, we moved together and lived happily ever after - or so…
Later I quit university to start an apprenticeship as an office administration clerk, and started my first internet business. It took me two years to find something that earned me some bucks. After finishing my apprenticeship I went full time - and fell flat to the ground. Ouch…
Now I’ve stood up again, and learned my lesson. I finally realized that I am the one who got me down there, and that I am the only one who can do anything about it. I stopped dreaming my life, and started living my dream. I got me a job to pay the rent, and created this blog as an outlet of my creativity, my vision and my desire to help.
