I Watched These. Then I Looked at My Life.
- WHAT
- I didn't set out to find these three together. One came from a late night rabbit hole. One from a friend who said"just watch it."One I almost skipped because the thumbnail looked boring. They're from different channels, different eras, different films. But something connects them — something I couldn't name until I'd watched all three in one sitting. It has to do with time. And attention. And the feeling that life is happening slightly faster than you're actually living it. Watch them in order if you can. About 31 minutes total.
- VIDEO NOTE 1
- Everyday Virtue | Paterson & David Foster Wallace Like Stories of Old · 8 minA bus driver wakes up. Drives his route. Eats lunch by a waterfall. Writes poems no one asks to read. Goes home. This essay is about that kind of life — and whether it's enough. David Foster Wallace thought there was something radical in paying attention to ordinary things. Not in a precious, Instagram-caption way. In a genuinely hard, deliberate way. I've thought about this video on random Tuesday afternoons more times than I expected. Good for: anyone who feels like nothing significant is happening in their life right now.
- VIDEO NOTE 2
- The Tree of Life | Crafting an Existential Masterpiece Like Stories of Old · 19 minGoes in the opposite direction from the first one. Malick's film starts with a family in 1950s Texas and somehow expands to the origin of the universe. This essay doesn't try to explain why that works — it shows you. I'd watched The Tree of Life twice before and found it beautiful but distant. After this essay, something landed differently. Worth watching even if you haven't seen the film. Maybe especially then. Good for: a quiet evening when you're in the mood to think.
- VIDEO NOTE 3
- Life Is Brief | Ikiru (1952) Video Essay / Kuya Sunset · 4 minA man spends 30 years at a government desk. Never does anything that matters. Then finds out he has six months to live. The essay is set to Gondola no Uta — the song from the film — and it doesn't try to be clever about it. It just lets the film be what it is. I watched this last, which felt right. After the small life and the cosmic one, this one asks the only question worth asking. I'm not going to write it here. You'll know it when you get there.
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I Watched These. Then I Looked at My Life.05/20/20260 followers- WHAT
- I didn't set out to find these three together. One came from a late night rabbit hole. One from a friend who said"just watch it."One I almost skipped because the thumbnail looked boring. They're from different channels, different eras, different films. But something connects them — something I couldn't name until I'd watched all three in one sitting. It has to do with time. And attention. And the feeling that life is happening slightly faster than you're actually living it. Watch them in order if you can. About 31 minutes total.
- VIDEO NOTE 1
- Everyday Virtue | Paterson & David Foster Wallace Like Stories of Old · 8 minA bus driver wakes up. Drives his route. Eats lunch by a waterfall. Writes poems no one asks to read. Goes home. This essay is about that kind of life — and whether it's enough. David Foster Wallace thought there was something radical in paying attention to ordinary things. Not in a precious, Instagram-caption way. In a genuinely hard, deliberate way. I've thought about this video on random Tuesday afternoons more times than I expected. Good for: anyone who feels like nothing significant is happening in their life right now.
- VIDEO NOTE 2
- The Tree of Life | Crafting an Existential Masterpiece Like Stories of Old · 19 minGoes in the opposite direction from the first one. Malick's film starts with a family in 1950s Texas and somehow expands to the origin of the universe. This essay doesn't try to explain why that works — it shows you. I'd watched The Tree of Life twice before and found it beautiful but distant. After this essay, something landed differently. Worth watching even if you haven't seen the film. Maybe especially then. Good for: a quiet evening when you're in the mood to think.
- VIDEO NOTE 3
- Life Is Brief | Ikiru (1952) Video Essay / Kuya Sunset · 4 minA man spends 30 years at a government desk. Never does anything that matters. Then finds out he has six months to live. The essay is set to Gondola no Uta — the song from the film — and it doesn't try to be clever about it. It just lets the film be what it is. I watched this last, which felt right. After the small life and the cosmic one, this one asks the only question worth asking. I'm not going to write it here. You'll know it when you get there.
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