Lost and Found

By Jannic Amadeus Spannbauer

If you are reading this, two lost souls have found each other. I’m not trying to belittle you or throw you in an existential crisis but aren't we all lost to some degree. I’m not sure what will be achieved in this blog, similar to my life. In both however I am slowly trying to find myself and hopefully help others to do the same. Hence the title of this place.

I understand that reading is very hard, I struggle with it too. If I have just one ambition as a writer, it is to make reading easy and accessible again to our tortured attention span. I will try to do that by giving you a raw insight into my brain and memories. I hope I can make you laugh at your screen like an idiot in one part and nurture a tear in the next. Here you will get my real unfiltered experience so brace yourself. 

As a matter of fact I have no idea if anyone will ever read this or if the 50 Euro I spent is basically for a glorified diary. Anyways, I guess this goes into the category of "Men will literally do anything except go to therapy" so its money well spent. My motivation for this is to finally fulfill my aspirations of writing. It may sound conceited but I always had the feeling that my words deserve to be heard, that they might be of value. You will be the judge of that.

This blog will feature adventures from my journey as a diving instructor. From Egypt to Thailand or Mexico to the Maldives, I will bring you on a dive into this fascinating world. Besides that I will explore all the countries I have visited again through travel guides and short stories. In order to make everything more authentic and personal, once a month I will post one of my own diary entries. I know there are more interesting and important  things in the world than myself and I want to show that here. The section “Feeling Better” will be us as a community discussing the problems we face and how we might tackle them. Overall though, this blog will be a collection of experiences I have made. Some hilarious, some spectacular, some heartbreaking and some that are just mundane. I hope you might discover yourself in some parts of this human spectrum and don't recognize other parts at all. Wouldn't that be beautiful? To recognize that we are all so similar yet all so different!