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I have officially checked off a huge bucket list item this year…

Premiere a short film in front of a live audience.

This past weekend I was able to host a live short film premiere with friends and family and share the experience of watching a film I had been working on for about a year. I walked away with some lessons.

First, this was the most fulfilling I have ever been in terms of putting out a new video. Every time I want to show a new video or film I do the typical, upload it to Youtube and wait for the any views to come in. This time was so different because I didn’t care about any of that. It was all experienced toegether, in the moment.

It brought a different level of excitement and meaning to the work I had put in that I had never felt before.

This time instead of working towards views on a screen, I was working towards bringing the closest people around me into one setting and enjoying a story together.

Second, working so hard behind the scenes for 1 video brought even more joy and excitement into my life. Up until now I had been working towards putting out as many videos as possible for the hope of seeing what stuck and yes to learn as much as possible. But this quickly became a game about trying to get views and I saw the quality and excitement of my videos go down.

The internet is way too saturated with others trying to do the same thing and I dont want to make this a chore. I want to put stuff out that excites me. So other than deleting social media off my phone for the sake of creating from my imagination, I want to enjoy the freedom that comes from taking my time on a video or a picture for just enjoyments sake.

I want to create from boredom. Boredom is good because it forces me to make something up that I enjoy in order to get me out of boredom. I dont want to create out of competition with others. That’s not exciting.

Alright, that’s enough of this.

Talk soon.