I hope this post is taken in the context it is made, but I don't have anyone who might understand how much this decision matters to me.
I love love making videos. It has always been my way of sharing how I see the world with others. But I've made the decision, after 25 years (since I was 16) of making videos, storytelling and taking photos, to sell all my gear and give it up.
For the last decade, my income and career have 99% been rooted in marketing and digital ads because I would get so down when the skills and time it takes to make a video were so belittled and undervalued. There's no way for me to make a living doing video in the circumstances of my life anymore, which is fine. But it's also bittersweet as the thing I started doing to bring in money when video was suffering is now what I do all the time, and video is gone. I had always hoped it would come back around.
Honestly, I don't even know what I'm trying to say other than I'll miss it. I'll miss doing what I love doing and it being able to sustain my life to allow me to keep doing it and to share how I see the world with others.
I guess that's life.