3 weeks with Steem, you have to introduce yourself.

Where do you start when you want to tell a little about yourself? I'm taking the most important turning-point in my life.

me 15 years ago

I have now 13 years ago, when I turned 40 overnight more or less threw everything. Burnout, it just didn't go on like before * * My company, Specialized wholesale for satellite technology, which went better and better, sold without further ado and rented our newly built house for the time being.

Background for me was mainly that at that time I had absolutely nothing from my five-year-old son and because of the many work in my company couldn't participate in his life. 12-14 hours of work every day and no weekend off. And this over several years. Why all this? **the nice money you make and a greed to have more and more.

If you earn more money you just can't get enough. Then it must be the villa you have, the Porsche for 150 k and the Rolex on your wrist worth a middle-class car.

You buy stuff you don't need to please people you don't like anyway.

In that time 6 or more years is almost no day off, so just get fed up with everyone. Then I bought a big camper for us and communityally we have moved more or less 6 years uninterruptedly ** through the country.

with his son and the old AMI Van

Most of the time we spent in Greece. And since we liked it the best there, we ** settled down there**.

10 years later on the same beach

***The time when we were on the road was the best time of my life.

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our house in Greece

Now I have ** rented a house** with quite large property at the sea for 7 years and start quietly. I never had the dream of self-sufficiency because I don't think it can be realized 100%. If I can buy a cucumber for 20 cents and a few kg of tomatoes for 1 € ** to a farmers' market**, the question is whether this is absolutely necessary.

I have everything here from the **20 l distillery ** for alcohol and oil to commercial mincers, commercial kitchen machines with various resolutions and a convector. Utensils for cheese, sausage and bakery production can also be found here, but this is rarely used. Food processing is a great passion of mine.

Sohnemann is taught by Homeschooling of the ILS for children of Germans living abroad and teaches the required material if he feels like it. He had the opportunity to decide for himself when he wanted to learn something. **

Sonman learning at the sea at the age of 7 years

When I visited DE again 4 years ago in November and was a little weak diagnosed with heart failure and I was already on the transplantation list for a new heart. Got a CRT-D (is like a pacemaker) implanted and recover me halfway well - what no one would have expected. The whole thing cost a small fortune and I can really only guess everyone that he calls it even if only through a backdoor a health insurance his own. I only had immigration insurance back then without homeland security.

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Video of my coronary arteries and my CRT-D implant

Two years ago there was a probe infection on my implant and I would have died almost of it. Everything was explanted and since then I refused to have a new 3-chamber pacemaker used. All these years, I've had several heart attacks and one mild stroke. I have to take huge amounts (about 15 pieces) of tablets every day which have extreme side effects.

If anyone is interested, I have written down the course of the disease in a diary in German.

Unfortunately, the consequences of the disease are that I can no longer ** concentrate properly on something** and unfortunately also have massive problems expressing myself partly in word and writing. Sentence construction, grammar and spelling is catastrophic. This hits me particularly hard writing is a passion of mine.

Beach in front of our door, and cover picture of the Resie Guide

Years ago I wrote a guide to the Peloponnese, an illustrated book about the Ionian Islands and finally a novel with an autobiographical background. But unfortunately no publisher was interested in these masterpieces. But that didn't bother me, because writing, especially from the novel has brought many sunken memories back to light.

Why do I write everything so publicly and still give quite a lot of myself away? Quite simply, it should do so once to the thinking inspire. Making money is not the most important.

The only thing that really counts is family and health.

You can also be really happy with a minimalistic lifestyle. Today I drive an old Suzuki and a minibus, and also these cars bring me from A to B.

So now you halfway know who you're dealing with and I'm looking forward to becoming a part of the Steem Community.

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