Chapter 3— Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Looking back 48 hours, I should’ve added more to Chapter 1. I made a big commitment, and I didn’t really explain much about how or why I decided to undertake such a lengthy task. So, let me start from the beginning.
Years and years ago, I made videos. To be more specific, I made vlogs. They were terrible and I hate remembering that I made them, but they were interesting to me at the time. I just didn’t do enough stuff, or have a witty enough personality, to make videos that were worth watching.
That issue lead to an infamous Twitter notification and the creation of this photo, which all came towards the end of my vlogging days.
Thanks to Facebook Memories, this photo comes back around every year, which then brings back a ton of other memories. It’s quite cool, but also pretty shudder/cringe-inducing.
The photo has crawled back out of the depths of Facebook exactly twice while I’ve been at university. As you can imagine, I’ve met a ridiculous amount of new people during my time as a student, which means a whole new audience for the photo and a whole new section of people asking, “What kind of videos did you make?”
That question is exactly what my housemate Abbie (hey Abs) asked two days ago. Her response was, “You should totes do daily vlogging”. My response: I still don’t do enough fun stuff. And then I made the decision, pretty rapidly.
That was it. That’s how I made my decision. It was swiftly debated within my brain, and then I wrote Chapter 1.
My decision to buy a cheap little camera all the way back in the early 2010s and make some videos got me here. I’m a daily blogger all because I stuck my neck out, put my face in front of a camera and took a lot of shit for it. If I hadn’t have done that years ago, I definitely wouldn’t be writing these words right now, and you wouldn’t be reading them.
I’m certainly more confident in my writing ability than I am in my lack of ability to put my face in front of a camera and be entertaining. But the point I want to make is that always, regardless of how I feel about my ability to do something, I’ll never know how good I am until I just do it.
Actually doing something is the biggest step you make when you have an idea that has the potential to become a reality. It’s tough to take that step, but what do you really lose by taking it? Not a lot.
It might sound stupid — like, really stupid — but if I have an idea these days, I think of this quote from Babe. Yes, Babe the film from 1995.
Farmer Hoggett knew that little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go away should never be ignored. For in them, lie the seeds of destiny.
At one point I wanted to make videos, so I made them. At another point, I realised I didn’t want to work for anyone else, so now I work for myself. Two days ago I wanted to blog daily, so now I blog daily.
But look, I know how difficult it can be to just do it. So if you’re stood on the line that separates your idea from reality, just drop me a line. Easy as peas.
If you have an itch, you itch it. So, if you have an idea, why wouldn’t you idea it?
Does that sound witty? It felt smart when I wrote it but to be honest, the more I read it, the more stupid it sounds.
Anyway! One more thing that I forgot to mention yesterday and wanted to write a lot about today but restrained myself from doing: I’m a Liverpool FC fan. A big ol’ You’ll-Never-Walk-Aloner. It’s worth getting out of the way early before I write too many posts and it becomes the elephant in the room (for me, not for anyone else).
Tonight is the Europa League Final, and Liverpool are in it. The first European final for Liverpool in nine years. Nine years. I was 12 last time Liverpool played in a European Cup final. That’s crazy.
As you can probably imagine, I’m very excited for tonight’s game and I thought it’d be worth a mention at the foot of the post. But don’t worry, I’m going to try avoid dicussing football as much as possible. I promise.
The final was also worth a mention for the fact tomorrow’s blog will either be utterly depressing and worth avoiding, or the most joyful piece of writing you’ll read all year. I also have an interview tomorrow morning at 9am, so the celebrations shall have to wait if Liverpool do win.
For all of my emotions and more, stay tuned for tomorrow’s blog.
Great way to end, right? If Liverpool lose feel free to take the piss over on Twitter @EllMorrow. But if we win I’ll probably be an insufferable, gloating mess so stay well clear.
