About Zia

About Zia – which, by the way, is short for Patri-Zia

If you made it here, you’re already doing better than most.

I’m 48, Swiss, and I moved to Tunisia in 2025 — alone, on purpose.

No family here. No safety net.
Just me, a dog, a cat, and a life I decided to build from scratch.

I live near Sousse now, slowly finding my people.
The real ones. Not the convenient ones.

I’ve been a PC and internet nerd since the early days.
Before social media. Back when the internet still had soul.

I don’t just use technology — I take it apart, understand it, and bend it.

Games?
I play them. I mod them. I break them.
My game, my rules.

I read a lot.
Novels, thrillers, true crime, historical fiction, fantasy, sci-fi.

Yes — sci-fi especially.
(Tunisia… Tataouine… you see the connection 😄)

I also read non-fiction:
psychology, crime, linguistics, history, IT.

I like understanding how things work.
People included.

I write long messages. Good ones.

Emails. Letters. Thoughts that actually go somewhere.

Sadly, most people today seem overwhelmed by more than two sentences.

If you enjoy real communication — you’ll like me.

I love warm, sunny weather.
I’m literally a better person when the sun is out.

Mental health matters to me. A lot.

I have strong ethical values.
The suffering of humans or animals is not something I can just ignore.

I can be a bit of a homebody.

But if you take my hand and say:
“Let’s go. I’ll show you something new.”

I’m all in.

Building things together.

Ideas. Projects. Something meaningful.
Something interesting. Something beautiful.

Not just existing — creating.

I don’t care much about social media.

Netflix and YouTube? Sure.

But endless scrolling through meaningless content?
No thanks.

I’m quiet at first.

I observe. I analyze. I take my time.

If I start talking a lot,
that means I feel comfortable.

And that doesn’t happen with everyone.

Then you probably already understand something important:

This is not about impressing me.

It’s about whether we actually resonate.