The most beautiful woman in the world next to me

On impulse, I began to write a diary. I didn't know at that moment that I would be documenting my path to a new life in the months that followed. All I knew was that I had to let go of the woman whom I love, then as now, so much that it hurts. Friends told me how brave they thought my decisions to pull up all tents were. Some seemed downright envious. The only question was of what - not having a job, not having a flat, or both. "You have to see it as an opportunity," they said. At that time, however, I could only see it as the only option left to me: to start completely from scratch. One minute employed as a computer technician in Berlin. The next moment, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city in the middle of a rural idyll. I herd sheep in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, work as a trainee carpenter in Austria and somewhere in between I reach for my camera to capture the search for myself in pictures. A great declaration of love. A sensitive examination of the love of life. The author's tone is so unusually fragile - the voice of a new generation of men.