people not places

For those who would consider themselves familiar with my content, it probably felt strange that there wasn’t a heartfelt message at the end of it, especially for this video that encompasses the best times caught on camera by me these past three years. I made this video to be very lightly “packaged”. There is no intro card, no credits, almost didn’t stick its title on at the end. All it’s got is the title and a long list of people that I want to thank for being in my life these past few years. I do want to go a bit more in depth about what I’m thankful and grateful as well as other things, here in this description box under the video.

This video was trying to do a few things. I hoped for this video to be a good send off to this chapter in mainly the lives of my close friends and I, as well as an end to this era of the channel. I hoped for this video to make you feel something strong. I hoped this video would convey in the initial moments of the video, a belief of mine that has repeatedly shown to me its validity this past while. That belief can be said in a few different ways, but they all share the same idea, and that’s that people bring meaning and sentimental value to places and without the people, the places mean nothing. I tried to show how all these places can look like empty canvases or lonely forgotten places without us bringing our presence and energy to those places. And even now that I know this, I just know I’m going to continue not realising that’s what it’s like for everywhere I’ll go until I’ve left the place and enough time passes that I get a longing nostalgia for that time and place. That last line there, is one of the things, that makes me so happy I decided to make these videos in the first place.
I’m not going to thank anyone specifically for doing certain things, I never do in my videos anyways because I often feel a large amount of love and adoration for the whole group of people I want to thank. I wasn’t sure in the video if listing off people in the video was a bad idea, but honestly, it’s a list of people that come to mind that had an impact on my life that I can recognise and appreciate what they’ve done. I know this sounds weird but some people can be acquaintance type friends where you like them as a friend but don’t think they’ve made an impact on your life. Sounds harsh but that’s just how I feel. I was also worried that that list was going to be this big dirty flex at the end like “OOOHH look how many friends I have WOAHHH!”. It’s not a flex, it’s not the intention. I’m just very appreciative of a lot of people. About a third of the list are people I’ve only seen for one to three weeks of my life and also haven’t seen them in two years maybe, but I remembered them for being great in that time I was around them, mainly Gaeltacht friends. I want to thank everyone I listed for being in my life at all, and being people that I’m glad to have come across in this big fuck off world of like 7 billion people or something. Even if like 1 billion of those people are just straight assholes, 6 billion is still pretty big. So far from the people I’ve met, it has just felt like more hits than misses, I feel like I haven’t made any major enemies in my life (but I might’ve made some now with this video if I didn’t include a few people on the list). Each person on that list has given at least one thing to me that I value so very much. Some have offered even more, laughter, excitement, personal support, advice, their time and attention and so much more that I can’t think of now off the top of my head. That one thing that everyone has given me, and this is the biggest cornball moment of this essay, is friendship. Honestly some of the people reading this might think there’s no need to go so far in being appreciative of their friends, but I just did go that far, because I really fucking appreciate my friends, especially the ones that positively affect my life regularly.

I know the friendship I’ve had with my close friends isn’t a totally one of a kind friendship that the world has never seen before even though I used to think it was, when I was young, impish and whimsical in TY. It doesn’t and never needed to be that to still be incredibly special and I’m not sure if it would’ve been as easy as it is to see that without all the videos. If these videos already make me miss the times they captured in each of them, I can’t imagine how it’ll make me feel when those days are depressingly long since gone. And I tend to be late to the realisation party about things like this, and I need to tell myself to realise what’s about to go and never come back ever or never come back the same.

This one’s for all you amazing people at the end of the video. Sorry if you weren’t seen in it, I probably didn’t have any proper footage of you to put in but I hope that credit at the end is enough. Thank you for everything you have done for me.
Music in video:
Banshee Beat
by Animal Collective

Видео people not places канала Mark Lombard