This is what Nico and I experienced on our video trip to the Lofoten Islands, Norway, back in June 2016.
I just watched the video again tonight (June 2020) and I feel it’s hard for me to keep this thing up on YouTube. While it shows how much I was willing to work for this channel back then, and during those particular 9 days together Nico, too, it also shows an ugly truth of that time: My miss-management of sleep and stress compromising health. It was a crazy and rather bad idea to do this trip in 9 days. 30 would have been OK. 9 was what we had to do this together. Then there was the idea to capture beautiful landscapes while creating a travel vlog so I can take you with me on one of my video trips. A maybe good base idea. Bad execution.
I changed in the past 4 years, especially in the past few moths. Never again I’d do such a fast paced thing with sleeping so little, compromising health so much. Life is too precious to handle the body this way. I’m thankful for this lesson. It looks like sometimes I have to actually go through something to realize which elements I want to keep in my life and with which not.
For the future I wish to keep all the beauty in the project, the music creation, the piano sessions, filming nature. I intend to become a better, more health conscious person in the process, slowing down my self, being more mindful in all I do. In music creation as well as in collecting footage. I’m sure this mindest will spill into my art and you should feel this with my future creations.
Thank you for being with me.
Stay safe, healthy and happy,
Life is precious.
Love,
Michael (relaxdaily music and video)