people from the web that i admire
here are a couple of people i admire right now. ohhhh, before i go on, this isn't the next post i promised in my previous post. think of this as a prelude. haha.
here is a norweigan guy who's got wickedly good video editing skills. he's in animation school, or maybe used to be one, i dunno. hindi kami close. so, this is the video which basically catapulted him to "web-dom".
so he's great with video-editing. so what? well, in this next video, he basically used his skill and became an expert with the piano and the drums.
ok you must think i'm a pretty shallow person for declaring to the world that i admire who's great in patching together video. but his next video, which ain't like the previous two, wowed me. not because of his skill, though its still amazing here, but more because of his being a person here...
...and here is a person who is living. and he is living cause he exudes life in a way that a lot of us can't. here is a person who you can feel goodness somehow radiate off him. and here is a person who hasn't lost life to the world. here is a person who's not clouded enough by this world, that he remains a person who is like a vanguard of humanity. everyday, mankind degrades into nonhumanity. becoming more and more mechanical and robotic. where every "life" is just a template we got from those who came before us and which we will pass on to those who will come after us. and yet every now and then there are still some here and there like him. those who understand it AND adapt to it. they're not stupid enough to rebel against it and get crushed. sure, those guys are heroic, but they didn't even make a slight dent to the current world full of unhumanity. you see we all start out in life wanting to do something to make our mark in this world, but at some point we realize that making a mark in this world isnt as easy as we used to think, and so we back off. we lose that confidence in ourselves cause we fell into the template that was handed down to us and we didn't realize it for what it was. template? what template? uh gee, lemme see. you probably had some education. maybe a college degree. you might have a job. the very fact that you're reading this says you are using a computer which you is paid for by a source of income like a job or a business which you got into with some sort of education. now im not saying we shouldn't follow templates. what im saying is we should when we're being already controlled by a template and we should seek to reverse the situation. with this guy, he understood that we need to work, study, eat, sleep, cause thats the way this world is right now. but he didn't let those things rule his life and become his life. instead, he chose to rule over them. and for that, i admire him greatly. its hard enough to realize that we're in that situation, much less reverse it.. now the question remains, how the heck am i so sure that he really is that? im not sure. but thats the aura which i feel emanating from him.
now here is another guy you could visit by clicking here. you might have heard of him before, he's the guy who dances all over the world and uploads the videos to his site. do i have a philosophical reason for admiring him? well, none in particular. maybe same as with the guy above. oh wait, here's one: i admire him cause he actually had the guts to drop everything and pursue his... uh... ok, fine, dream. i was trying to recall the term used in the alchemist, no luck. i guess you could say that some of us do put off chasing after our dreams for later cause we might not have something to fall back on if it fails or because we might feel useless after acheiving it. well here's a guy who went after his dreams. after his first trip, he was broke. but he didn't care. and what do you know, fate indeed sided him(just as what's said in the alchemist) and made a company sponsor his second trip. so now, maybe he's not traveling anymore but hey, im sure he's enjoying being an "internet celebrity", or as being an inspiration to others. so yes, he took the risk. so this guy went after his dreams leaving the familiar. and after acheiving it, life still goes on. it didn't stop for him. now ain't that just nice?
so i better end this post now and pack bags. i just convinced myself to go on a trip. haha. nah. that's why i admire these two guys. i cant do what they did right now, cause if i can then i wouldn't be admiring them, right? sucks... off to bed for me again and prepare myself for the coming work week. T_T
here is a norweigan guy who's got wickedly good video editing skills. he's in animation school, or maybe used to be one, i dunno. hindi kami close. so, this is the video which basically catapulted him to "web-dom".
so he's great with video-editing. so what? well, in this next video, he basically used his skill and became an expert with the piano and the drums.
ok you must think i'm a pretty shallow person for declaring to the world that i admire who's great in patching together video. but his next video, which ain't like the previous two, wowed me. not because of his skill, though its still amazing here, but more because of his being a person here...
...and here is a person who is living. and he is living cause he exudes life in a way that a lot of us can't. here is a person who you can feel goodness somehow radiate off him. and here is a person who hasn't lost life to the world. here is a person who's not clouded enough by this world, that he remains a person who is like a vanguard of humanity. everyday, mankind degrades into nonhumanity. becoming more and more mechanical and robotic. where every "life" is just a template we got from those who came before us and which we will pass on to those who will come after us. and yet every now and then there are still some here and there like him. those who understand it AND adapt to it. they're not stupid enough to rebel against it and get crushed. sure, those guys are heroic, but they didn't even make a slight dent to the current world full of unhumanity. you see we all start out in life wanting to do something to make our mark in this world, but at some point we realize that making a mark in this world isnt as easy as we used to think, and so we back off. we lose that confidence in ourselves cause we fell into the template that was handed down to us and we didn't realize it for what it was. template? what template? uh gee, lemme see. you probably had some education. maybe a college degree. you might have a job. the very fact that you're reading this says you are using a computer which you is paid for by a source of income like a job or a business which you got into with some sort of education. now im not saying we shouldn't follow templates. what im saying is we should when we're being already controlled by a template and we should seek to reverse the situation. with this guy, he understood that we need to work, study, eat, sleep, cause thats the way this world is right now. but he didn't let those things rule his life and become his life. instead, he chose to rule over them. and for that, i admire him greatly. its hard enough to realize that we're in that situation, much less reverse it.. now the question remains, how the heck am i so sure that he really is that? im not sure. but thats the aura which i feel emanating from him.
now here is another guy you could visit by clicking here. you might have heard of him before, he's the guy who dances all over the world and uploads the videos to his site. do i have a philosophical reason for admiring him? well, none in particular. maybe same as with the guy above. oh wait, here's one: i admire him cause he actually had the guts to drop everything and pursue his... uh... ok, fine, dream. i was trying to recall the term used in the alchemist, no luck. i guess you could say that some of us do put off chasing after our dreams for later cause we might not have something to fall back on if it fails or because we might feel useless after acheiving it. well here's a guy who went after his dreams. after his first trip, he was broke. but he didn't care. and what do you know, fate indeed sided him(just as what's said in the alchemist) and made a company sponsor his second trip. so now, maybe he's not traveling anymore but hey, im sure he's enjoying being an "internet celebrity", or as being an inspiration to others. so yes, he took the risk. so this guy went after his dreams leaving the familiar. and after acheiving it, life still goes on. it didn't stop for him. now ain't that just nice?
so i better end this post now and pack bags. i just convinced myself to go on a trip. haha. nah. that's why i admire these two guys. i cant do what they did right now, cause if i can then i wouldn't be admiring them, right? sucks... off to bed for me again and prepare myself for the coming work week. T_T
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