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SNOWING IN BALI

I still regret all the shit that directly or indirectly people suffered because I was a tool, a mechanism, a piece of the machine. If I could go back in time, I would never get involved.

Thank god I met the right people and started getting more spiritual and started to realise you don’t need much to be happy.

Now, I just try to live my life without doing any harm to anyone, and just try to help people when I can. And thank god I have a business that is helping people, helping people to surf good waves, helping people to have a good time.

There are a lot of people — especially young people — if you say, ‘There is death penalty in Indonesia,’ they still say, ‘Yeah, but there’s a lot of people still doing it and I can do it too.’ But they have no idea the cost of that Russian roulette that they are going to start playing.

Most people get involved because of the money, but it comes together with the glamour, the power kick and all the shit and it’s not until you finish — when you look back — that you see it was all fantasy, all a big cloud of bullshit you were living.

And sometimes, unfortunately, it takes people going through the worst to learn that. If my story helps any of those kids to think twice before doing something stupid, this alone for me is worth everything.

Andre

Andre’s most recent whereabouts cannot be revealed.

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