Hi people! 

My name is Amín Diouri, i´m 24 years old. I was born in Málaga, you probably know it because its sunny weather which costed it the name of Costa del Sol (Sunny Coast) that´s why my english will not be probably the best but i´ll try to do this as my mom does the "paella": with lots of love and patience :)

I define myself as a passionate person, a good friend and a travel lover. I found Steemit accidentally when someone told me the concept in a blockchain forum. I initially did not really trust him. The concept was too big to be real but i had to close my mouth once i started investigating. 

SOME CHAPTERS OF MY LIFE STORY...

I have an arab background, my parents are from Morocco, my grandparent was from Egypt. Mom and dad came to Spain for a better life, worked hard and had three children in Spain: Karim, Layla and me. 

Since i remember i allways used to break anything i had in my hands. My brother used to get upset by that and i drived crazy my parents but all i wanted to do was seeing the things from inside, investigating and then creating something from the broken pieces. I think that defines a bit my creative spirit.

I was born in Marbella (Málaga), i lived later in Melilla, one of the two only spanish cities in Africa, i cameback to Málaga at the age of 16 and then, when i was 19, after failing twice on High School, i did not know what to do my life. I felt i was not prepared to the university but i was sure i didn´t want to waste my time so i took a 12 KG cabin size luggage, just a portion of my life, and flighted to London looking for my inspiration. 

At that time my english was as limited as i didn´t even know how to say bus stop. I used to say "the stop of the bus" What a genious! ...

I starded as a stock room assistant in a shoe shop, i worked hard to improve my english and, when i did, i promoted to sales assistant and then supervisor. After some little achievments i felt lost in London. I felt i was loosing my main target and the raison i went there: finding my passion. 

I decided to leave everything and travel. I knew it would be the only way to restart and find myself. I took the little money i saved, i booked a ticket to Thailand with a return ticket for three months later and i took the plane with 3 girlfriends. 

When we got to Thailand things were not going as expected and i was feelling weird with my collegues. I felt that we were not a good team and i decided to leave. At that time i only had 300 pounds in my pocket, 300 pounds for three months in Asia. I was expecting to get some good money from my last job but it never came. 

So this was the situation: 300 pounds,alone and 3 months ahead... what a panorama.

But i said to myself: 

"i will not die so anything that happens to me will be positive"

I travelled to the north of Laos, the first day i was by myself i decided to start looking for a job, i found a bar where they would give me food and a place to sleep for my work so i say ¡YES! 

I met two french guys who became collegues in the bar and friends, we spent three weeks travelling and working together till the day i decided to travel back to thailand.

I almost saved all the little money i had and i decided to change my return flight to London earlier as expected because my financial situation and i wanted to spend my last days in Thailand non stressed. 

I took i bus and a boat and more than 24 hours later i got to one of the thai islands: Koh Pagnan, the Full Moon Party Island. 

I was by myself, enjoying an incredible sunset in my bungalow when a guy came to me inviting me to have some drinks with some more people. I accepted and we have an amazing party together. 

The next night my new friends and me went to a party on the beach. My account at that time was less than 50 pounds and i already knew how to change the date of my return flight.

We were all dancing arround our backpacks on the sand when Kyle and Max, two of the guys i met came to me and said:

"Hey Amín, we know you are running out of money but we forgot our wallets on the bungallow and we would like to have some drinks, could you borrow us some money?" 

I said "aboluteley! there is my backpack, inside is my wallet, you know i have nothing but i can share the money i have with you guys"

They looked at me half embarrassed half surprised. The day later they came to me to give me the money, Kyle started de conversation:

- "Hi Amín, well... here is your money. I would like to say thank you. You just know us for 2 days, we could robbed you the wallet, you had nothing and you shared it. I would like to help you in this trip and pay this month of your travel. Please stay with us. "

I spend one of the best months of my life with them exploring Thailand. Sometimes the karma works and good people gets rewarded. He is now one of my best friends and the best thing after that trip , i found my passion: marketing. 

I cameback to London, worked hard, felt in love with my beautifull girlfriend and decided to comeback to Spain to study marketing and staying closer to her. 

After failling so many times in high school i had the best mark in my promotion in marketing, i started working in sales and marketing and achieved good targets. Now i can say i´m happy.

"Life is all about taking risks, jumping into empty pools and felling passion about what you do. "

Amín