#Kontra K - Erfolg ist kein Glück

Hello people,

First things first, here's a small introduction:

This is my first Blog, I have never had a reason to have one before, but as many other things in life, this changed. This blogs content is not fictional. Everything that I mention is really happening and I am actually receiving these letters. My name is Chris. I am not Caro. In the following posts you'll get to know why I chose this name for my blog nonetheless.

A few days ago, On Jan 14 2017 I received a letter. That is not so bad after all. Someone had written my address on the envelope, but no word about where it came from. Even the handwriting was unknown to me. Well, I don't really care about privacy and I occasionally get letters from strangers via postcrossing or similar services.

Alright, let's head to the letter itself. It starts with "#Kontra K – Erfolg ist kein Glück" (Kontra K - Success is no luck), that's for the name of this post. Then theres the explanation: The person wants to stay anonymous and she does not want to give me any possibility of contacting her. That's alright with me, i mean, i have a lot of questions, but i respect her decision.

I will never publish the whole content of the letters and I will also change all names given in the letters, but I will blog about the letters themselves, several text passages and maybe i I will upload the one or the other picture. I will still try to summarize the most important aspects of the letters content.

"Dear Chris,

I have been keeping a diary for a long time now, but I want my words to be read.Not because I think I am talented with words and writning, but because I dont want to have the feeling of writing my words into the emptiness." (all quotes from the letters are translated from German)

I can understand that and the whole thing is pretty exciting somehow. I am like a letter-diary for an absolutely unknown person. The idea is pretty cool and bloggabl, which is why I started this project. These words shall not remain unread. If you will ever find this blog and you are absolutely against what I am doing here, then you know how to contact me :)

"I just had the urge to write, because I realized, that everything is changing right now. Do you know that feeling? You take a look at yesterday and everything is still the same. But when you look back at what was one year ago, then nearly everything is different."

I mean, who does not know that feeling? And who has never needed someone to talk to in such situations? I like the idea of a letter-diary more and more. You can write everything right off your soul and you still know, there is someone out there who reads what I am going through. A part of me feels helpless though, because I read about hard times and difficult situations and I cant help the person who confides in me.

Our unknown person somehow reminds me of myself in a lot of issues, if thats fair to say. She prefers helping others more than herself. She is more empathetic than most of the people I know. I think she is a little helpless as well, because she wants to help her best friend („Laura“ in the following texts), she needs to comprehend her fathers death at the moment and she has to make a lot of decisions because her mother is unable to cope with the situation. Our protagonist really worries about Laura and I hope they will get through this together!

She also tells me about the end of her relationship with her first boyfriend and the strange feeling that you feel, when something has always been there and is suddenly gone. Also she really neglected her friends during the time of her relationship. I once read, that every time you fall in love, you will lose 2 close friends... Hopefully she will get together with her friends again. It's not always easy to accommodate friends and relationship.

Her family background is difficult, in the letter she calls them "fucked up". Parents divorced, she has been living with her mother eversince, mother does what she wants and is more like a best friend to Caro. Regardless of that Caro says that she's cool, but still she looks pretty special to people who don't know her. Later on Caro moved to her father, new wive, new siblings, married, now they're unhappy and its just a matter of time until thats over.

"Since my father is a relatively correct person, I spend most of the time with him. We are both like the alliance in that sick family, but you probably can't imagine what could be so sick about my family, but that's hard to explain in 2 sentences."

Well, I know a little more than you do, but maybe she'll drop the bomb later :D

"Alright, Chris. You are probably pretty confused right now and you'll be asking yourself what this is. But I hope that you think it's cool that I write you and I hope that I found the right person to write to in you.
Bbest wishes
Caroline“

I'm just going to call you Caro :)
That's it from Caro and me!

Post Scriptum

My thoughts:

- Where does Caro have my name and address from? (I mean it could be from everywhere, the way i handle my privacy)

- Will I get more letters like this?

- Very nice idea!

- Exciting to follow and to get a small look into the life of a stranger

- I am so sorry that I can't help you.