Welcome to My 1st Blog Post
Here we go: I am sitting in a cozy cafe in a charming neighbourhood district in Singapore writing my very first blog.
The title of this blog? “Writing an Introduction for Your Blog.”
I have been pondering how to craft something engaging so that someone out there might want to read what I am about to write. How could I find the words which may resonate with you? How could I describe my experiences and my own story in a way that it may perhaps help you and possibly change the fate of your story for the better? Then, a thought shoots through my head: Everything I have learned over the past years is about leaning forward, trusting, having faith and just starting to create instead of staying lost in my thoughts.
So, I extend a warm welcome to my first blog post. I am Sascha, a 45 years old member of the Homo Sapiens tribe, just like you. I have navigated life’s struggles, trying to find my way through an ocean of ups and downs we all call “life.” I wish I could say my journey has been meticulously planned and well-narrated, but the truth is quite the opposite. As you will discover in the blogs to appear on this platform, I have faced my share of struggles and my most recent one nearly pushed me to the brink of my own extinction.
In a moment of desperation, hopelessness and despair, I contemplated giving up on this gift we call “life.”
However, facing my apparent end, I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving everything behind - my family, my mum, dad and sister, my friends and colleagues. It felt selfish. I didn’t want to pass on my suffering to someone else. I realised that every one of us deserves another chance, no matter how dim our circumstances may seem.
Throughout my adult and professional life, I have always been an experimentalist, hungry for knowledge and eager to discover my own truth. I asked myself: “Why didn’t I give my life and my felt suffering a new meaning and purpose?” So I decided to embrace my experimental spirit and embark on a journey of self-discovery, re-inventing myself, away from any old thought patterns and biases.
I wanted to find answers to questions like:
What can I do to live a more fulfilling life?
Why does my life often feel hard and difficult?
Why did I habitually focus on what could go wrong?
Why didn’t I learn to focus on what could go right?
Why did life seem to present whatever I feared, worried, or doubted?
What if I stopped worrying and doubting?
How can I reframe my struggles and find a more inspiring meaning in them?
How can my own trials benefit someone else on a similar journey?
In these questions, I found my new purpose: I set out to chart a course towards positivity and personal growth, away from textbooks and towards my own experiential truth. To find these answers I decided to embrace an open, all-inclusive mindset - a mindset filled with possibilities.
On this journey and with my eyes set on this seemingly endless horizon of possibilities, I took notes, scribbled thoughts and documented my experiences. These notes serve as a map of my journey, a tour, if you will.
It has been about a year since that pivotal moment and I am proud to say this journey has transformed me. I have evolved from a person struggling with depression to someone who genuinely loves life again. On my own odyssey, I learned to face my demons, managed to free myself from prescribed anti-depressant medications and found self-love for the first time in my life.
I traversed the mind, body and soul, diving deep into unchartered depth of my own human experience.
From the outset of this journey, I decided I would share everything I discovered along the way. It is the very purpose that led me to this experiment. All my findings have found their way into my first book, titled: “Light Up Your Darkness & Be the Hero(ione) of Your Own Story.” While the book is in its final stages before publication, I wanted to create an additional platform to share with you, offering a channel for communication beyond those who read the book.
My hope is that my words reach those who need to hear them and sow the seeds of hope. Hope for a better life - a life for which we are responsible. I aim to normalise discussions about vulnerabilities, fears, worries and doubts, not only for myself but for everyone. During my own healing journey, I have come to realise the strength of our species lies in collaboration. We were never the strongest, fastest, or fittest, yet our ability to communicate and collaborate made us the dominant species on this planet. When we openly collaborate we have the power to change and reshape not only our environment but also our destiny.
So, my wish is that this platform, the book, my personal journey, and my honest descriptions of my life’s most profound struggle points towards a possible way for someone who may find themselves in a difficult situation, too.
Join me on this transformative journey, and together, let us craft our hero(ine) stories, one chapter at a time.
Sascha, what a lovely first blog! I look forward to the following ones. It takes courage to open up and inspire others. Keep sharing Sascha!
Hi Sascha,
Reading your first blog. It feels like talking to someone who is at the other end of the tunnel through which I am passing through right not. There is so much to ask, to know..
Looking forward to more inputs and thoughts from you.
Kind regards.