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Alex Amplatz

@alexamplatz

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Do you know that strange feeling you can’t really put into words?
When you’ve just had the best time of your life, and then suddenly… it’s over.

You wake up the next morning in your own bed with this weird feeling in your chest. Like something is missing. Like there’s this little emptiness inside you.

And yet, at the same time, you somehow feel more fulfilled than you did before.

But why?

In the end, it was just another trip.
Just another week of flying.
So what made this one feel so different?

I think it’s because sometimes, without even realizing it, something touches your soul.

It’s the warmth of the people around you.
It’s realizing that you matter to them.
The kind of laughter that makes your stomach hurt and brings tears to your eyes.
The stupid little moments that somehow become the ones you remember most.

It’s barely sleeping for an entire week because staying up late, talking about life, laughing about absolutely nothing and having conversations you’ll remember for years somehow feels more important than sleep.

It’s the friendships you never expected to make.
And maybe that’s the strangest part of all…
How can people who were almost strangers at the beginning of a week feel so much like home by the end of it?

Maybe that feeling in your chest when you come back isn’t really emptiness.

Maybe it’s just the space that all those people and moments suddenly filled — and now you notice it because they’re not right beside you anymore.

I thought I was going to Denmark for the flying.
Turns out, the flying was only a small part of what made this trip unforgettable.

So grateful to be part of the @flugschule_suedtirol team, and even more grateful for every single person who made this week what it was.

Thank you for one of those weeks I know I’ll carry with me for a very long time. 🫶🏼🇩🇰 by @alexamplatz

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I still struggle processing all of this..

Less than a year ago I celebrated reaching my first personal milestone: 10,000 subscribers & getting monetized on YouTube after many years…
and today I’m sitting here, staring at the fact that this channel hit 100,000 subscribers.

Honestly, it still doesn’t feel real.

There were days I questioned everything—days I honestly wondered whether any of this would ever pay off.
And yet, the only thing that keeps you going is the same that made you start in the first place: Passion.

Step by step, things began to shift. Suddenly, all that work started to pay off. And little by little, it finally began to feel worth it— until passion finally turned work.

Society loves to tell you to “be realistic,” to stop dreaming, to settle.
People keep saying dreams are for kids.
And maybe they are.

But then the real secret is to stay a kid at heart, refusing to grow up, and shouting to the world:

“If being smarter means what you say it does, I’ll remain a fool my entire life.”

So here’s to every so-called “fool” who keeps going.
Here’s to everyone who refuses to grow up.
And here’s to everyone who walks alone:

We made it. And we’re just getting started.

🥹🫶🏼 by @alexamplatz

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a year ago

No more glasses👀 🤓🙅🏽‍♂️ by @alexamplatz

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a year ago

Walk up like Hobbits, fly down like eagles 🪂

Good people, a beautiful place and one hell of a fun night.
Till the next adventure — see ya 🫡

#paragliding #mountains #hikeandfly by @alexamplatz

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I went to have a coffee with my 16-year-old self.

He walked in quietly, like he was trying not to take up too much space.
I walked in taking up exactly as much space as I needed.

He asked me if life ever stopped feeling lonely.
I told him the loneliness never fully disappeared. But one day it stopped feeling empty and started feeling peaceful.

He told me nobody really understood him.
I smiled and said that one day, the same thing that made him feel different will make people admire him.

He asked if we ever became confident.
I told him confidence didn’t arrive all at once.
It was built every time we stopped trying to fit in and started being ourselves.

Then he looked at me and asked,
“So all those nights overthinking… they meant something?”

I smiled. I told him they built us🫶🏼 by @alexamplatz

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4 months ago

In my defense, SHE is a woman. OKAY?! 🙂‍↔️ by @alexamplatz

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a year ago

When paramedics got it wrong 🥲 by @alexamplatz

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2 years ago

Short story of how I became a professional paragliding pilot 🤓 by @alexamplatz

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2 years ago

Seriously 😂 taken in Kronplatz by @alexamplatz

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a year ago

I guess I’m cooked 💀 by @alexamplatz

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Thanks buddy 😂 by @alexamplatz

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Tried my best though by @alexamplatz

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