About
I created WhiteMirror in the early days of the Corona pandemic when I had some time. I wrote the texts to process things I had experienced on my travels.
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The aim is to make the one life we have as worth living and happy as possible. I noticed some differences in the way of life, the feelings and the eyes of the different cultures. I thought about their characteristics and people and tried to draw conclusions from the experiences.
To whom is that something?
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Are the texts something for everyone? No. They are something for those who are open to new things and would like to reflect on them for their own lives. After my travels I came back to a world where, despite the high quality of life, I had the feeling of being surrounded by less joy of life.
Based on these characteristics of the different cultures, I have thought about how to make one's own life as worth living and happy as possible. And I would like to share these thoughts with you. Everyone can decide for himself or herself what he or she does with the content. The goal is to help achieving a life that you can look back on in many years and think: "Wow, that was worth living".
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Who is that guy actually?
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Already in the past I liked to question everything and tried to look at things from as many different angles as logically as possible. Searching for myself and with the urge to get to know our big wide world, I set off on my first big Work and Travel trip 7 years ago, whereby it feels as if it was only from a few years ago - strange feeling. But after this first trip my hunger for the world was far from satisfied. On the contrary, I knew that one day I wanted to settle down with a family. But I also knew that I could not be satisfied without having been outside for a while and exploring the world. From October 2018 to June 2019 I took a second Work and Travel unit, where I wanted to experience as much as possible and stayed again in different parts of the world. Of course, the one or other icy pass in the Himalayas was not to be missed out on with the motorcycle. And especially in South America the one or the other Latino party was not to be missed. Nevertheless, I always tried not to simply "consume", for example to tumble from party to party like a maniac and to become a horror for all the locals. I have tried to have unique intercultural conversations, to understand the locals and to realize what is really going on deep inside them. Because I wanted to take as much as possible for my own life and way of thinking from this probably last big world trip without any obligations.
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Why WhiteMirror?
After I came back to my home country from my travels, it was again a culture shock - like when I first entered India, only the other way around. I am back in one of the richest and safest countries in the world. But I see fewer sparkles and laugher in people's eyes, I see fewer people dancing. This is my world. Rich, but with less ease in life. Not like out there. Poor, but many smiling faces.
When I came down after a few weeks from my ongoing travel happiness, it was the first time really hard for me. I have to understand that life will not go on as it has been the last months. Life doesn't consist of a constant high of adrenaline, where you just come out of the jungle, climb a 6000 m peak and then rip your way down with the Enduro along Lake Titicaca. It is not every day that one gets to know people from indigenous cultures and is allowed to gain most extraordinary intercultural experiences. It is not every day that one sees dreamlike new places and gets to know exciting new things.
You see the same office every day. You see the same gym and the same wall every day. And you don't get to know many new people either. I have noticed that I am slowly getting back into the old rut and that some things are getting just as corrosive again as they used to be. I have noticed that the smile in my eyes is slowly disappearing again and that I am slowly getting back to the old routine. But I don't actually want that. I want to keep the smile in my eyes. I want to continue to go through the world happy and laughing and lead an intensive life. I want to try to unite the good qualities of the different cultures and discard the bad ones. Because yes, even the cultures in which the eyes shine intensely have negative sides - such as increased selfishness and corruption based on it, which can tear a country into ruin.
In order to be able to reflect on these experiences, I have written and WhiteMirror emerged. The aim is to encourage people to think and reflect and, based on this, move the lives of some people in a more happy and contented direction.
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Why not?
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Some bloggers out there are blogging to finance their lives full of travels. One thing is important to me to get rid of: Before I left, I knew this was going to be my last great journey. I'm done with that topic. I have had an incredible number of breathtaking experiences and I have absorbed every moment of travel so deeply that I have had enough of it. I have seen everything I wanted to see. I have got to know many different cultures very closely, climbed the highest mountains, fought my way over the highest passes in the world on the motorbike, let myself be stung by the world's most painful insect in the jungle, swam with dolphins and dived at various wrecks and reefs. I have made various deserts and islands unsafe with various jeeps, I have had absolutely enough parties out there, I have been the freest person in the world long enough and I am done with the subject. The blog does not serve to finance "my freedom". I want to work, I want to build great things, I want to settle down with a family and I don't need to travel the world for months anymore.
The experiences I was allowed to gather form the basis of my philosophy and these texts. I do not want to create wanderlust in anyone. Rather, I want to show a way how one can go through the world and everyday life happier and more reflected ... with the best qualities of the different cultures combined in texts that should stimulate thinking and reflection.
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Where does the name "White Mirror" come from?
Mirror: First and foremost it is about reflecting social developments and personal thought patterns - in other words, mirroring them.
White: In contrast to the Black Mirror series, for example, which is about showing the negative consequences of social developments, this blog focuses on the possibilities of living a better and more positive life. White symbolizes the positive in this case.
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Why does he talk so often about happiness and satisfaction? What is the difference between them? And how does that relate to "worth living"?
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On this blog a lot is about topics like "happiness", "satisfaction" and a life worth living. If you have clicked through the pages a little bit, you will notice that these words also appear again and again in the texts. I was often asked what I understand by them and which of them I think is more important. Here you can find a small contribution.
