A Video I Like

DailyPicksandFlicks, director. Octopuses Slap One Another. YouTube, 29 June 2016, youtu.be/9acwO4GBCps.

I love the ocean my family has a sailboat, spending time on the sea is my favourite past time. However I don’t feel as if I know what is beyond the oceans surface, my imagination goes to deadly sharkes. I always appreciate when a video can show me that animals or in this case octopuses have lives and are not just some detached concept of an animal. An element of the video I enjoyed was the audio, it reminded me of a stop motion camp I went to. This video makes me smile because it reminds me that even octopuses don’t like everyone and they too want to slap some people.

Photo with Impact

This image is impactful to me because it is a picture that I took on the West Coast Trail this summer. When I see this photo I am taken back to it. The trail was mentally and physically challenging to get through but when I look back at this photo I am reminded of the good parts of the trip and the pay off of getting to see such beautiful scenery. The trail showed me a few things.

  1. BC can be a beautiful place and has rain forests.
  2. I can take some nice photos.
  3. I should take advantage of all the great places around me to go outdoors in nature more often.
  4.  Sometimes the most memorable parts of the trip are the disasters (our tent flooded at 2am) and that it does not have to be the end (best sleep on the trip after that).
  5.  As we were walking along the coast for a good portion of the trail, I got to see some gorgeous beaches, rocks (see photo?) and luckily enough gray whales. There were a few places where it felt unreal and was like we were on a different planet, specifically the part where the photo above was taken. With all that is going on with the environment it really would be a tragedy if places like this were destroyed.

My Favourite Quote

“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” -Voltaire

This quote is interesting to me because I think it applies to everyone and is a universal mistake, we don’t appreciate things in the moment or at all. Sometimes I feel like I’m waiting for the good times to come to be happy, as if it is scheduled somewhere. Although at heart I believe I’m a pessimist, I know the value of being optimistic and having a good outlook on life which is something I do agree with the quote. I hope because of this quote when I am overwhelmed and busy I won’t forget to find pleasure in what I am doing.

“Voltaire.” AZQuotes.com. Wind and Fly LTD, 2019. 26 September 2019. https://www.azquotes.com/quote/485634