A CONTINUOUS WEB-BASED PLATFORM FOR SELF-EXPRESSION

BiggerThanLife, or a.k.a. BTL, was a long dream and passion of mine. It all began when I first started composing “thoughts” chapters, after I decided that all perspective, no matter how twisted and skewed they might appear in the moment, were worthy to be written. The thoughts and the feelings, at times sober and at times not, were continuously written in order to see how perception was affected by everything I have been doing over time. It quickly gave me an idea on who I was, who I am, and who I desire to be.

Initially, all these thoughts were for my personal satisfaction and not for the world to see. I wrote, wrote and wrote some more, all until one day I had so many words written down that I’ve decided to re-read them all. Years down the line, you read the words you felt then, and the thoughts that circulated in my mind and there it was. I saw the progression, the evolution of thoughts over time and the perception change as it was happening. Nothing of this yet made me decide that this was an idea to be posted online. I believed for the longest while that all these thoughts and all these ideas were just a ridicule if to be posted to the world to be inspired. I believed in it, and I was afraid of my thoughts and ideas to be posted online, for the world to judge and to point the finger at me as the idea of shadow living always pleased me. I like attention like all people, just I rather sometimes stay anonymous in what I do, where I go and how I do things. That’s why I don’t have Facebook, I don’t have Instagram, I don’t have Twitter and sure as hell, I didn’t write blogs and made videos for the world to see.

So what changed you ask? What changed is that I’m tired and I’m slowly getting older as I write; and then I think, all the years I’ve been saying I live to make the world a better place and what have I done truly? There it is, my reason of being, and my reason of writing and posting videos on here today.

This being said, I am here to make the world a better place, one word at a time, and if god permits me, whether he is here or not, I will go down having tried at least.

Why me you ask? I’m not sure neither, but in my life, a lot of people found comfort in the advice I give, in the words I write, and in the words I speak. I don’t think of myself anything different than anybody or anything else in this life. I believe that I am the same as my friend, as my enemies, as the neighbor’s dog, and as that tree planted right in front of me. Yet, I feel sometimes that my soul is pure, and I seek, not the personal satisfaction, but rather than living up to the duty I assigned myself in my childhood, protect the world and make it a better place. My words are meant to hit, and to hurt at times, but it will heal wounds and it will make you a stronger person. I will show you the reality that we all feel inside, and the will to be stronger that resides in all of us. These words, as inoffensive as they might appear, have impact and they flow through the sheets as the wind in the sky and as the water eroding everything that stands in its way.

Brace yourself. Have fun and think of your life as a continuous project on which you must embark and fulfill the destiny you assign yourself to. Like all things, all it takes is effort to be put in, to realise you are capable of everything and nothing, but that only you and your choices stand in between the two. Live to the fullest and never give up on yourself, because everyone else will, and that’s why you need to keep your grounds up, as long as your will permits you.

Live young, and live free.

~ Alekor