Trying something new...
Vidjour_001_MundaneDays
I’m in the works of reigniting my YouTube channel, and I have been toying with different ideas of how I wish to present myself to the world.
My life is all I know. Photography, writing, starting and growing a business, soon to be planning a wedding, wanting to buy a house and build a family with Alex—these are the topics I’ll likely stick to.
Because I journal frequently, I want to maintain that sort of authenticity while hopefully providing value through substance and overall entertainment.
So, today, in getting closer to my goal, I fired up my camera, testing a new wireless mic for the first time. The following video is that result—let’s say, a video journal, on the topic of “mundane days.”
In fact, this video is actually a rehashing of the thoughts captured via voice recording during my drive over to the park, and the transcript that follows the video is of the actual original voice recording (of course, edited here for brevity). I’m sharing both in case one remains more effective than the other. I’m also open to suggestions on formatting. Perhaps they both suck.
So, yeah. Ideas are stewing. And I’m posting this here because nothing survives in a vacuum. You gotta start somewhere, right?
If you’re still here with me now, thanks a ton.
I’ll try my best to keep your subscription worthwhile.
FILE NAME: Vidjour_001_Mundane Days
ALTERNATIVE: Voice Recorder Transcript
Uh, April 21st, I believe, the day after Easter. I'll have to check the date. It's 4.04 PM.
I am leaving the house for the first time today, besides walking the dogs this morning, because I've been finishing edits on the San Diego house from two weeks ago.
It's a beautiful day, and it's a shame for me to be inside, so I'm just going to go read a book over at Buena Vista Park, over on the other side of Warner Brothers here. But I wanted to talk because I'm thinking about the fact that, like, everybody wants life to just to be sexy, you know?
We have this dream vision of every day just being laden with excitement, and... What does that look like? You know, people picture wealth, yachts, that kind of shit, but, I think people just expect that if they could have it all, it would simply be an escape from the mundane... Mundanity? The mundane aspect of being alive. And if that were the case, and somebody had an exciting life every single day, well then, therefore, that life would no longer be exciting—because there's nothing to compare it to.
If everything is exciting every single day, then that just becomes a status quo, right? There is nothing that is unexciting, therefore you have nothing to base your excitement off of. It just is.
So, in order to have excitement, in order to have something that's sexy, you have to have the thing that is the opposite. Everything is the duality. You cannot have one thing without the other, right?
Because if you only have one thing, then that thing no longer exists. It just is. So, people want their lives to be exciting; they want it to be sexy, and life isn't sexy. It's just time. Life is time. You're born and time starts ticking. And it ticks, ticks, ticks, and then you die, and you return to the aether from which you came. And maybe the cycle repeats. Maybe you wake up in another multiverse, another reality. But the idea that life is meant to be sexy is untrue, because it can't be. Just like if it were only ever cold, then it is just cold. We don't apply an adjective to it. We only apply an adjective in relation to something else. So we only know what cold feels like because we know what hot feels like. But if there is no hot, and there's only cold, then it's just weather. It's just temperature. Cold is just what it is all the time.
Excitement is something that we all seek in our lives; but to have excitement at all times, there would be no excitement anymore. And I just have to remember that each day I move forward, there's going to be exciting days, there's going to be boring days; there's going to be days when I’m stuck at the computer editing work all day; there's going to be days when I’m out photographing all day. And I can't look at one day as being better than the other, or worse than the other. It just is.
To have a foundation, a purpose, a Sisyphean rock that you are carrying every day— which is the purpose of your life and the meaning of your life—then that is the only thing that is the most—I don't know what the right word is—but it's the most honorable thing and the correct path of living, in my opion, to just move forward through each day as the time clicks.
Do not be inactive. Have greater reaching goals, have micro goals, and just every day be trying to push the rock a little bit further up a hill, inch by inch. Maybe you'll slide back a few feet if something happens, internally or externally, but you need to keep overall progress going up linearly.
But also that straight line is never straight, it's curved and wonky.
There's no straight lines. Again, this is life.