hey there,
i think the most difficult think about being a videographer is you stumble across a section of footage or a tape of something from a wonderful time that has long since past, and now, you would do anything to be there again. i recently found some footage of my daughter and son from about Fall 2005. it's really beautiful to see them playing and i'd do anything to be there again. makes me wish i could go back in time and fix what i didn't know was coming. do it right. nearly made me cry watching it. the footage is sweet, a beautiful fall day at prince charles park in kamloops. seems like i've been through hell since then. i don't know if trial and tribulations make you stronger, maybe it just makes you realize you want to get through the storms and to the calm again. i miss my kids. more than anything. if you got a family, and you want it, do what it takes to not lose it. like me.
cb
1 comment:
Thanks for the reminder not to get distracted from family. I sometimes forget that.
What you describe of your experience as a videographer is somewhat true for writers also I think. Maybe for a lot of artists. Wishing to recapture a time in the past is a type of long-headedness. A tendency not to forget things; to run them over in your mind, and bring them back again in some way, through video, poetry, music.
That said, if you are still seeing your little ones, then you have not lost them. Just be with them, however imperfectly, whenever you can. If you do this, then you are doing what is important.
Thanks for your honest thoughts.
Jenn
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