[Off-topic] HenriHopesForTheBest:
Hello everyone,

my name is Henri and I want you to gift me five thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars.

5437$ or about 4800€. (Rates May 13,2015 GMT)

If you have not clicked away yet, let me explain:

I live in Berlin, Germany and I am 21 years old.

When I was about 16 years old I was moderate to severe depressed. Thought about killing myself, cried myself to sleep et cetera. I don't want to go into detail with this, because you have all heard those heartbreaking stories before.

Anyway, I got over it. I did not go into therapy. Instead I decided to fix the problems which depressed me. Those were mostly that I did not have a social life at all and had a good amount of social anxiety.

I wasn't able to ask an elderly woman for the time on the streets, started sweating when people I didn't know talked to me in school and so on.

And obviously, I didn't have any female contact besides my mother and sister.

In 2011 I had a breakdown and decided that I had to change or I would eventually kill myself in a weaker moment.

I went out to fix my social life and become happy. And I succeeded.

Long story short: I pushed myself into social interactions, pushed myself to talk to girls. On this journey I found awesome friends, two especially which could not be closer to me. One of them had the same goals as I, wanted to overcome all social borders there are.

I also met a lot of great girls, eventually other guys asked me for advice.

I was the happiest person I knew.

This is when I and and the friend mentioned above decided that we could actually teach other guys to get to where we are.

We are currently building a German website where we want to give advice for young guys on talking to girls, fitness, having great sex, fashion, hygiene, motivation, discipline, managing happy relationships and ironically living a happy life.

Ironically, because right now I am depressed as f**k again. This is because I don't have money, my parents don't have enough to support me. I got a job, but I literally started crying there because I felt so miserable. At home I feel miserable because I have no money. I am working in sales without base salary.

My expenses are about 600€ a month. In Germany, parents get some money for their „childs“ as long as they study, so I get close to 200€ a month from them. 400€ left.

My options right now are :

1) „Manning up“ and work and hope that therapy fixes this.

2) Getting student loans and go to university in a field with which I will be able to pay back the roughly 20.000€ in loans, just so that I do not have to work right now and can put my energy into the website.

3) Moving back into my parent's place on the other side of the country and everything on hold. They live in small village, so I won't be able to meet and advice people, talk to girls, network etc.

I would give up everything I built here.

Yesterday I decided to give another idea a shot. The idea you are reading right now.

I figured if I could get 4800 people to give me 1€ each, I could live one year without stress.

12 months times 400€ is 4800€.

I am convinced that my website and other projects will make enough money for me after this year.

If not, and this is a very small if, I will be where I am right now again, hopefully with more valuable lessons learned, happy and therefore able to work a normal job if I have to.

You see, I am basically asking you for time. I realize that 1$/1€ isn't much, but if you gave it to everyone you'd be dead broke. I do not know how I can convince you that I deserve this money more than anyone else, but I know that all I need right now is this money to handle this situation and put all my energy into the website and hopefully helping others.

I am asking you to gift me your next coffee, ice cream cone or burger.

If just 1% of the people reading this decides to help me out with one dollar, I have to show this to 543,700 people.

This is why I actually looked up the biggest online communities and I am posting this to every single one that can somehow relate to my situation or the subjects of our site. Some just seem to have cool people in them.

As you will see, there isn't any content up yet. We already have a lot but want to publish about ten good articles for the start. And yes, this is a working-title :D

If this post gets removed because it violated any specific rule I understand that and want you to know that it wasn't on purpose. I also tried to post into Off-Topic or similar.

If you have any questions, I will answer them as soon as I can.

Please don't give us advice on the design or that wordpress „is bad“. I appreciate it, but I want to answer questions about the content, our goals and whatnot instead of discussing webdesign. So far we have been working on content only.

The site as it stands is just a vehicle for the donate page, since sites like „fundme“ take 30cents per donation plus fees.

Again, all I am asking for is 1$ to solve all my problems for one year.

Thank you for your time.

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