Think About It...

Good evening folks.

Today was one of those days that just fucking happened. although my movements were planned, I managed to produce a video today that I am really proud of. I cannot take complete credit of course, as my YouTuber-at-arms SiCurious was at hand to help with fooling the audience into a false sense of security by the magic of camera angles.

I've posted the video below if you are still curious. (I'll give you guys a moment, meet me back here...)

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I just wanted to blog for two reasons today, firstly because I haven't in a long while and it wouldn't be much of a blog if I posted once a year...(!) and secondly because i wanted to talk about what the video make me ponder everytime I see it.

The video delves into the themes made most famous by THAT scene in 'Being John Malcovich' where everyone is the same, speaking only "Malcovich". I didn't go quite that obtuse, but its certainly an homage to the great concept of confusion by familiarity.

We have all probably experienced this feeling when things are too much like 'before' whether it be an old girlfriend, why we keep making the same mistakes and probably why we always end up looking for faults within ourselves.

In fact, I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about how to be feel better about themselves and be awesome. It all boils down to being able to love yourself. This is an underrated and under-practiced skill. No-one becomes awesome overnight, and there will still be people in this world that will dislike you if you do - even if you cure world hunger and bring about world peace. you would be guaranteed that some little arse-face would make you out to be worse than Hitler munching on a baby sandwich.

The key part to understand is that the road to being awesome is a state of mind, where you take each step of the journey one piece at a time. Just like eating a breakfast of cereal, bacon and eggs and two cups of tea; you cannot put that in a blender and consume at once. You might be able to get it down, but you might choke, puke or worse, never have breakfast again...

An awesome person would simply eat the cereal with a spoon and get through it piece by piece while sipping awesomely on their awesome tea. By the time they finish, they will have had a truly awesome breakfast; not choking, puking, or fighting off some horrible bout of heartburn...!

...My long awaited point is that when you feel that life isn't fun anymore, you have to realise that you are right. Life isn't fun. Fun is an emotion that we create inside ourselves. Whatever we feel, is not caused by the outside world, its how we choose to deal with it. Inside.

So next time you are trying to eat the burger of life in one bite, remember that life is what you make it, and how you choose to do that is completely and utterly up to you.

Peace,
Snare Van Damm

Being Snarevandamm (The Big Vlog 151/365)

Long Time NO SEE!!!

Do you ever get that feeling that everyone else is having a much better time than you? I do today – its just a short message and I apologise for not writing much at all lately, but I’ve been very busy moving house etc… if you also include the daily vlogs, its quite a time consuming …er… time.

Well I hope you are all cool, and I wanted to talk today about balance. Most of the discussions I have daily are about balance in one way or another. Work and non-work, good and evil, time for you and time for others… it can get quite stressful finding time to be not stressed.

I haven’t really got a lot to talk about today. My mind seems to be all over the place and I can never get to the place I want to be. Have been feeling the envy building up of all the celebrities on twitter today – they have things worth tweeting about every day, exciting new challenges and experiences. Sadly for the most of us its humdrum everyday. I don’t want to run the country, but I’d love to just kick back and work on the things that make me and my family happy.

The easiest way to achieve this is to win the lottery. But that really isn’t a career choice. Yet.

I want to create stuff. Music. Video. Articles. Maybe I should try writing a few things and get them published… now that’s an idea. Only problem is finding the time to write. LOL

…maybe that could be my first article. HA HA!!!

Anyway – enough from me, I’ve spewed brain vomit for 15 mins on here, and now I can draw from this for tonight’s vlog. Maybe… but we shall see…

Stay safe people.
Snarevandamm