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Baby yeah oh baby you'll be good when you're cool

Oh baby yeah oh baby you'll be good when you're cool Hey, baby, yeah.

Oh, baby, you'll be good when you come.

Hey, yeah.

Oh, baby, yeah.

Oh, baby, you'll be good when you come.

Hey, yeah.

All right.

Here we are again

Take two so I was actually here yesterday

at this exact same location around this exact same time filming this exact same video and

The reason why I'm here doing it again is because my audio recorder this here zoom pod track p4

The SD card wasn't properly formatted so while it looked like it was recording the red light was on

and the numbers were going, there was no file.

And I think I felt a raindrop.

Somebody just doesn't want this video to happen, huh?

When I was on the way here, it said it was supposed to start raining around 7.

And then I pulled up and actually said it wasn't going to rain anymore.

Because it's like, what's it?

It's like 6.25 now.

But now I'm feeling raindrops and the wind is starting to pick back up

and it's starting to get a little gloomier out.

So that concerns me a little bit.

I'm not that close to my car.

I'm not trying to get my camera and all my stuff poured on.

If I can get my phone in my pocket.

Let me check the weather app again.

It said it wasn't going to rain.

Okay.

Yeah, no, it's not supposed to rain.

It just might be a few raindrops.

You know, yesterday when I filmed this video, on the 31st, because I wanted to post it by today, the 1st. Today is September 1st. I don't know if you can see that.

The weather was perfect.

The sun was shining through in front of me.

I had a nice key light, a nice natural key light.

the bees were out, they were pollinating these fosbombs, it was a nice, it was a very nice vibe

today it's a bit gloomier and not as aesthetic as they would say but hey man,

we're going to make this video happen one way or another so it's been a while, huh?

it has been a while.

March 1st was the last time I posted on this channel.

And yeah, lots happened since.

And even prior to that, I was kind of taking a little hiatus before that.

So I got a lot to catch you guys up on even prior to my last video.

We're going into the fourth quarter of the year um man

flew by way too fast it flew by way too fast

um oh my gosh i'm feeling more in my raindrops please please lord stop this rain

so i can i can film this video

and have it posted i came all the way out here

please don't rain on me we're gonna thug it out for

now until it gets too bad um jeez it's like throwing my focus all off

I might have to I might have to switch I'm going to record this video today one way

or another but I might need to get underneath something

I just need to make up his mind if it's going to rain

or not I'm feeling a little drizzles which isn't the end of the world

but I need to know if it's going to start pouring because I'm

there's no real cover in the immediate area so

um that's gotten me a little a little concerned yeah it doesn't say there's supposed to be anything coming through

so we're gonna thug it out we're gonna thug it out rain or shine right

hang on let me adjust the camera it's a little bright

you can probably tell this isn't going to be a very

very polished video uh i kind of just wanted to turn the camera on forgive me

if you catch me looking down here at my my notebook

but i got some just some bullet points written down about stuff

that I wanted to update y'all on and talk about a little bit

because if I don't have it written down then I'm going to forget.

All right so let me let me pick up where we left off at.

We left off and I was in I was working with my cabins clients back in February I believe.

Yeah that was February and I posted in March.

uh prior to

that I mean I don't really have too much else to

really say I did go back down there uh in June

and I'm still working with them seasonally um

but yeah that's been good I do have some footage from

the last time I was there kind of walking through my process of shooting the cabins

and capturing the concept that's something

that you would be interested in seeing let me know

So I just didn't really have the opportunity or didn't really know what that would look like me putting it together.

But I think there's enough there for me to to do something.

So if you're interested in hearing a little more about that client and shooting short term rental Airbnb,

that sort of stuff, drop a comment and try to make try to make a video about it.

Prior to that, I didn't even tell you guys about my Florida.

I mean, I think I mentioned it on a stream, but I didn't really make a video talking about the Florida project, as I like to call it.

um so my birthday's in January so me

and my girlfriend went on a cruise

but you know I couldn't just uh take a vacation

and not try to get some form of working right

so I actually connected with a resort down in the Bahamas

uh to shoot some content for on one of the port days of our cruise

and that was pretty cool that was pretty cool to be able to to reach out and um

you know land the land the deal like it wasn't uh it wasn't paid i just say

that up front i didn't get paid for it it was

uh just in exchange for free day passes at the resort

which i was fine with i mean i've never done anything like

that before so i wasn't really expecting to to get paid definitely not getting paid anything

that would uh be that's super duper significant so for me the experience

and just being able to say that i did it was uh was enough i was pretty happy about that.

And then coming back from the cruise, we stayed in a tiny home community in Orlando for two nights

and we got to stay there for free

because I shot some content for the uh for the owner um for their Instagram

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and uh again it was it was cool just being able

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to to go through the process of reaching out getting the

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getting the free stay you know something something to add to my portfolio

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and to say that I've done so if you want

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kind of more a more in-depth video

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or to for me to just kind of talk about what

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that looked like and how you could potentially do the same drop in the comments

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so that I know it's something that you'd be interested in

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and I'll make a I'll make a longer more thorough video about it

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okay I wrote down in a really strange way in March and going into April

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um i lost my great grandma and my granddad

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and my other great

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so i lost my great grandmas on both of my sides my mom's side

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and my dad's side and i lost my granddad my mom's father um

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which you know i'll admit i wasn't really super i never

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really had a super tight relationship with my great with any of my grandparents

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and I still don't something

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that I recognize I I want to have um I think we take our elders for granted and then

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when they're gone it's like oh why didn't I spend more

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time with them yeah just losing losing those people just was

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a reminder of how how quick life seems to be going

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and how fast I seem to be growing up you know

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it's so weird how old I feel I mean I'm only 22

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so it's not really old

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but uh I remember being in second grade I remember being

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in kindergarten you know what I mean like I just remember

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feel like I feel like I can remember every single year going by

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and to just look back on that

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and you know think about where I was

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and how little I knew to where I'm at now and I mean how little I still know

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how much growing I still have to do I realized

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that losing my grandparents

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and just losing kind of the the older generation in my family in my life like

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that it feels like I'm losing my childhood And yes, I grieve the person, I grieve the people,

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but I also am grieving my childhood, you know.

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Now that I'm a young adult, 22 years old, now that I got my own bills, I got my own responsibilities,

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and, you know, I have my own life ahead of me.

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I mean, I always had my life ahead of me back then, but now it just feels more real, you know what I mean?

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when you're out of high school and especially

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when you're out of college life just becomes so so so

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so so much more real and uh yeah i miss being a kid man i said

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that before in another video but i really do i really do

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but i also love you know the the freedom and the independence

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that comes with being an adult and that's something

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that even as a when I was younger I remember looking forward to

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which now that I'm now I'm here I kind of wish

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that I uh I would have I wouldn't have been thinking about it

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so much you know

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but you know it's not all bad there are some positives with moving out of childhood

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and into young adulthood um and one of the things that I got experience this year was traveling very, very far.

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I went all the way to Japan in March

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and April of this year with some of my best friends from middle school.

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For 14 days, we're out there.

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And man, what a heck of a, what a heck of an experience.

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I just remember being there.

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And And one of the things that I just kept saying to myself in my head and even out loud was, there's no way this is real.

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There's no way that I'm here.

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When you're a kid and you're younger and you see places like China and Japan and stuff,

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places like that in your textbook or on TV.

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And you're like, oh, I want to go there one day.

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But you don't really realize, it doesn't really become real until you're actually there.

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and the the culture shock

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and the the just how different it is how different everything was it's like being in a whole different world

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and it really opened my eyes a lot to just how

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how big this uh how big this place is man how much how much there is to explore and

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Japan was just one country out of many.

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Flying that far away and being that far from home

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and in a place that was just so so

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so different from anything that I've seen before anything

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that I'm used to was it was life-changing and yeah I can't wait to go back.

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I can't wait to go back.

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uh i do have a decent amount of footage from japan to to put together a uh i don't know

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if vlog is really the way i really i really couldn't call it a vlog um

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because i didn't dedicate myself to really making a vlog

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and i was out there i was kind of just filming

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just to film i didn't have my camera every single day

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a lot of days i just left all my cameras at home

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and i was just you know out living which uh there's some pros

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and cons too like i recognize trying to do this uh

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do this creator thing like hey don't leave your camera at home

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because you're gonna miss out on something you're gonna really wish you had it uh

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which you know i i know better moving forward

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and i know it's kind of a meme

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when americans go to japan for the first time they just think it's like the greatest place in the world

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so uh i'm not gonna take too much time talking about

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it here in this video that'll be something something separate down the road that'll that'll come out eventually

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but yeah coming back from Japan my uh my work was still there thankfully I actually landed a couple jobs

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while I was out there

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and I was able to come back to I filmed a

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commencement ceremony at a university I landed a some social media

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content creation work I was working for an online Christian ministry

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which was man the work that they were having me do was so easy

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and the pay was pretty pretty decent not working with them

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any anymore not uh not on my half they just decided to shut down the program

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that they were doing but um hey i uh i appreciated it

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while i was last while it lasted

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because my my pockets was a little hurt coming back from japan you know so being able

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to have a decent month of May was was good it

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was very good I'm trying not to make this draw this video out too long

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because like I said I don't know if it's gonna rain or not but I know I'm going to lose daylight eventually.

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And also, this audio recorder is at...

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Oh, my gosh.

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All right.

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Well, luckily, I have some backup mics that I'll have to use for the rest of this video.

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Apologies for the decrease in quality.

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But, hey, man, we're going to make this happen one way or another.

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We're going to finish this video out one way or another.

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uh okay in june i went back to the cabins

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which i mentioned already

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so i'm not gonna harp on it again i started getting into solana trading

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or gambling whichever you you prefer to to call it um that's been that's been an experience that's been uh

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if you know you know but solana summer was uh it was good

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while it lasted but uh i don't know man i don't know

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if it's uh i don't know if it's how we're looking

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so far at the top i was up i was up

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pretty pretty pretty good i thought i was gonna have an

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extra 50 bands to my name around this time um it is it is definitely not looking like

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that right now it's definitely not

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but uh it's all good man it's uh it's part of

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the it's part of the game it's part of the game uh for june

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and July I did some social media management for a

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client who let's just say has an online education company

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and yeah that was a it was a good experience

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while it lasted I'll say but I realized that

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so I wasn't doing any actual content creation it was just pretty much managing editors

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um posting the videos um and just you know a hundred percent management role

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which just wasn't for me you know I let them know uh going into August

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that hey I don't think this is a position

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that I really want to do um

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and uh yeah it was it was no hard feelings um I think what I learned from

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that is that it's a lot of value and wisdom and knowing when to walk away from things.

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Knowing when things aren't for you and having the discernment to say, to be upfront with

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whoever it is you're working with and let them know

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and not just leave them in a position where you're struggling or you're not really liking what you're doing, but you're still doing it for however long just

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because um maybe i'll make another follow-up video sort of uh telling

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that story and giving a little more insight to that

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but uh i guess i don't want to make this video

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too long i kind of just wanted it to be a

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a brief obviously not too brief this video is already getting long

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but uh a relatively brief recap over uh a pretty long busy uh hiatus Alright, I'm going to wrap this up.

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I feel like I see some dark clouds moving in and I just felt another raindrop.

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So last thing I wanted to hit on

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and sort of just put my thoughts out there in this

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department was I feel like I have a director's mind

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and just kind of overall vision of the world and of my life specifically.

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When I'm in that place of being down, being in that funk, being in that depression,

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being in that just rut, I guess, I kind of find some,

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not satisfaction, but there's something almost slightly exciting about it in a weird way.

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I know that sounds kind of weird, but just hear me and see if this makes sense.

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when the main character of the movie or the book

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or the game or whatever whatever it is that you're uh you're watching

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or doing when they're down and you know

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that they're gonna they're gonna make it through and things are gonna get

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so much better for them it makes the viewing experience much

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more exciting right that's what you're on your that's what you're on the edge of or C4.

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And I realized with me, my problem is I'll live in that state of being down, being in that that ruts,

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because I feel like it's adding more lore and I feel like it's adding more excitement to the story.

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So I'm kind of purposefully delaying this, the climax, you know, I'm purposely delaying that that next act, because I know

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that I'm going through a lot right now it's been a long sort of uh depressing season

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but man when i when i flip the switch and

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when stuff gets better it's gonna be such a great resolution

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you know my gosh this rain's picking up all right i'm

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gonna have to finish my thought uh in the car all right

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so with the audio recorder failing yesterday uh it dying today

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and then the rain raining me out of my last location

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uh this video for whatever reason just seems impossible to make

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i'm gonna pick up on what i was saying uh before

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i was rudely interrupted by the rain about being the uh having this director's mindset

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and sort of vision for your life or at least you know kind of what i have for my life.

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I live in that space of just watching the second act

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and feeling like I need to add more lore

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and build more story by going through those trials and tribulations that will come, will come for everybody

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but I think I find some sort of strange kind of satisfaction uh being in

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that space because I know

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that uh I know me you know the main character whatever is gonna is gonna overcome everything in a triumphant

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and exciting way and I feel like the more you go through the more lore the more challenges

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that you you you can overcome the greater your story is for whatever reason um

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and you know that may or may not be the case but regardless I recognize that I keep those

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director's glasses on for a little too long um and

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that second act starts to get drawn out quite a it you know the the main character being down

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and out it's kind of like all right well when's he

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gonna get it together you know what I mean when's he gonna when's the climax gonna happen

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when is when is he gonna start turning things around um and I realized that while,

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yes, I'm the director and writer of my life,

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God is ultimately the executive producer.

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So as much as I want to plan

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and I want to have this perfect vision for my life

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and I feel like it needs to go exactly how I kind of see it going in my head.

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Ultimately, he's the one that makes those executive decisions and signs off on what actually happens.

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I don't mean to say that like I don't have any say

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or I don't have any control of what happens to my life in a day-to-day basis.

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I think it's important to take that accountability and take that responsibility and recognize that you are,

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you know, where you are because of the decision that you made, you know, prior to this point.

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When you start to sort of collect the challenges and the depression

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and the trials and tribulations and all the hardships that you're going through as sort of trophies,

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that you can later show off one day that you can later write about in your autobiography.

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When you kind of just are obsessing over them in a way and finding that pride in them,

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it's a double-edged sword because you're also becoming more complacent.

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and you're building an identity where you're kind of satisfied in

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that depression or in that funk or in that laziness in a way because you know that one day,

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one day you're going to turn around and you're going to be a much better, a much more disciplined, a much more mature person.

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But you don't have to just live in that and sort of sit in it now.

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you know go through it get over it

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and then start becoming the person

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that you want to be as soon as possible leave the

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stuff that's holding you back in the past uh as soon as you recognize

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that it's there you should be able to go okay

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that was a chapter of my life that's done

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that was a part of me that I no longer want to be anymore

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so I'm leaving that behind me um

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and that's something I had to recognize for myself and not adopt the identity of somebody that I don't want to be.

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Instead, you adopt the identity of the person that you're striving to be.

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And the person that when you do think about your finished movie or finished book or the overall story of your life,

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think about the person who is on the cover.

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It's typically never you when you're at your lowest.

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It's typically the person when they've made it, when they've reached the top of the mountain.

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Then they can look back on the journey that they came from and talk about it.

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I hope that kind of makes sense.

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I didn't really fully flesh that out as good as I would have liked, I think.

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But I think I was able to get the point across as best as I could at this very moment.

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All right, but I'm losing daylight.

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So I want to I want to wrap this video up

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with kind of a little vision for the for the near future for this channel and just for me personally.

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So I got a busy September coming up.

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I'm going to be moving around quite a bit.

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I'll be in I'll be in Dayton next week.

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The week after that, I'll be in Miami for for work.

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Actually, I'll be there for a whole week.

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I've traveled to DC for work like two years ago.

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I was only there for a day.

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I was literally there and back the same day.

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This time I'll be there for a whole week.

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You know, they pay for the flights, hotel, all that stuff.

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So pretty cool.

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Pretty cool.

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And I'm definitely gonna document that and sort of share what that experience is like for me, for anyone else that's, it's weird.

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It's crazy, man like being younger

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and just getting started out i was looking forward to the day where i get flu out uh

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and they pay i don't have to pay for my own flight i have to pay for my own hotel

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or anything like that stuff is all taken care of

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and i'm getting paid to be there

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and to see it happening now uh in just a couple weeks is pretty exciting um in the week after

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that i'll be in jamaica

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again for my for my cousin's 25th birthday

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so me him a lot of his friends are gonna be down there for what four nights

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so expect some content from there expect some stories I'm excited

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I'm happy to be back happy to have this camera back on happy to have this microphone on

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when it decides to work

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um but I want to make sort of a follow-up video to this in the form of a of a Q&A

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because I know I've been I've been on this hiatus for

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a little bit uh a lot of bit really um

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but yeah I think I uh I owe you guys some some answers uh to questions

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that I don't really have at this moment

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so I'm giving you the opportunity to write any questions comments concerns concerns inquiries etc down in the comments

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and uh for the part two follow up to this kind

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of catching up of me just talking to the camera video series i'll uh i'll do

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that all right

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if you made it to the end of this video then

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you must see something you must have gotten some sort of value from it

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so if you could let me know what drop a comment drop a like share with somebody

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that might uh might also find some value in it

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and um yeah don't forget to subscribe so you can stay up to date

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and uh see my next video when it drops whenever

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that is i promise i won't make you wait as long as i did before um but But alright man,

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I'm gonna wrap it up here.

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Y'all take it easy.

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