08/09/2026
Some impressions from my travels to France from 2017...
A country with its mysteries, that called me often during the last years of inner growth and transformation.
The moment captured, I was under observation by the neighborhood's children, when I took my photos of the red rocks of Roussillon.
An unforgettable roadtrip together with my besties by that time, companions on all paths - Miriam and Carl - in the same year we would also co-found CREAMS OF THE STONE AGE.
Consciousness sometimes rises slowly, shows in the well meant actions and in our case, led to the development of an own organic skincare brand, and this journey in summer 2017 was the preparation, and we did all the necessary editorial shootings to have our product in multiple depictions for our advertisement.
Looking back, all this circus was a remarkable experience I am still grateful for. Costly, in the loss of friendship with Miriam, who was my woman by that time, not making it till the end with me, when the own process started deeply - also triggered by her leaving me in late summer 2018.
The reconsiliation brings up all those wonderful moments of passion and creator spirit that I dwelled in but could not receive in gratitude and surrender back in that day. It was all "obviously self-evident", a mind grasping for recognition and goodness, creating chaos out of castles in the sky without any rooting.
I understand this impulse today as a break-out of a secure and good 9 to 5 in a hospital's pharmacy in this year as ultimate wake-up call by my higher aspects, guiding me onto the pathless path that I had unlearned perfectly in the tension field of Berlin during my adolescence.
Nothing external, it was the expectation and fulfillment thereof, that kept creativity and expression of Self small and led to striving for a secure and good job as pharmacist ultimately. Logical consequence: Use what you have learned, do something that fulfills you - hence the static work as pharmacist was not, what I had intended to contribute to society.
In the summer month of 2017, shortly before Carl and I would found the company to bring CREAMS OF THE STONE AGE to Life, all this recapitulation and recognition truly started and I was finally at a point of my Life where I was willing and eager to make a difference and start anew without the given narrow net of societal solidarity in the means of learn, study, do your job, pay your taxes...
That the self-employment in the means of an enterprise for organic skincare, based on trade, production and marketing, would cost so much more effort and time, when one would like to play it according to the rules of this market, that was not yet in full realization and so, we enjoyed these summer days in France together, on a roadtrip to visit potential cooperation partners and initiate our co-creation for a successful time as young entrepreneurs.
From my memories in between the years 2012 - 2019. The pre-awakening and Flight from societal rigidity, inspired by Tim Ferris's 4 hour work week back in 2008, when the journey started as young Pharmacist after my return from the USA.
Alé Asar
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