Why You Need to Start a Vlog and Document Your Life

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m. and I've just gotten off the bus and walking home now kind of crazy I thought I was going to be home a lot earlier than this I thought the transit would be a lot faster but I was incredibly wrong way too optimistic way too optimistic I think in the end actually my flight ended up being shorter than just my time spent on public transit on both ends which is kind of funny because the public transit on both ends cost like $5 total and the flight cost a lot more than five but I'm excited to be back in Chicago on the topic of what I was talking about earlier when it comes to starting a vlog and why I think people should think about documenting their life in this way something that came to me that I didn't think about before when I was sitting on the bus was the idea of community building a new and strong community and finding like-minded people I think the internet is like a great tool for meeting new people this past week when I was in New York I actually met up with two other creators and one of them was through Instagram and making these videos we both make videos so if there wasn't that connection there would actually be no way that I would ever meet that guy so if we weren't both in this space doing this making similar types of videos documenting Our Lives um neither of us probably would have reached out to each other and and we never would have crossed paths in our lives that's only one example of that because if you think about all the people that you connect with through followers through comments DMS um likes and shares and stuff like that every time you post something to the internet it has the chance to gather like millions of views and in doing so I think it has helped me realize that I am not like completely alone in my journey I am not special at all which I actually mean in like the best possible way because when I first started out I thought that I was like the only kid walking around um you know making these kinds of videos but then once you start actually looking on the internet you realize that there's a lot of people doing this kind of stuff a lot of people living similar lives to me a lot of people on similar paths in life as myself for example I'm an engineering student who also likes to do this creative stuff on the side and I am not alone in that line of work so by doing this I'm able to build like a new community around the things that I like to do around my journey and in turn I get to meet really cool people so I think that's another really powerful part on why you should think about starting a vlog series guess how long that travel took all in all for your reference Chicago and New York are like an hour and a half apart flight time it took 8 hours from the moment I left my sisters in New York to the moment I stepped into the apartment here it took more than 8 hours of course I'm super lucky to have the ability and have the privilege to be able to travel around and make videos and have fun so I'm not complaining about traveling but I am a little tired okay so it is pretty late now it's about like 9:00 p. m.