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Why I started this site

Alireza
2 min read
Personal
Fresh start
Free spirit

No grand plan

I hesitated for a long time before starting this site. No marketing strategy, no editorial calendar, no goal of ten thousand readers a month. Just the wish to have a place where I can honestly write down what's on my mind.

I sometimes call myself a free spirit - not because I have everything figured out, but because I've learned to make something of my own out of whatever life brings. Detours, false starts, unexpected turns. Most of it wasn't part of any plan. And yet - or maybe because of that - it became something that feels right.

Why now

Honestly, there's no perfect moment to start something like this. I could have started a year ago. Or in a year. At some point I realised I was waiting for a feeling of "being ready" that was never going to arrive.

So I just started. This site is my notebook turned outward - a bit about me, a bit about what's on my mind, and space for anyone who's up for a real conversation.

What you'll find here

No advice-column tone. No ten steps to a better life. Just honest writing about what I'm learning along the way - about fresh starts, about the art of not trying to perfect life, but living it instead.

If that speaks to you: glad you're here. Feel free to write to me if something's on your mind, or just to say hello.

AS

About the author

Alireza Shahsavarkhani lived for a long time inside patterns he took for his personality. Today he writes about recognising and loosening old family and relationship patterns – from lived experience, without diagnoses and without promises of healing. He is the author of “Der Parasit und der Quantensprung”.