The more you get likes, the happier you are.
But it actually isn't really like that.
It essentially works in a similar way to an addiction,
where you get satisfaction from people giving you a like.
That constant missioning out to get the ideal adventurous Instagram photo.
And with each shot that I got, it just felt more and more fake,
and more and more superficial.
There was no intention to have fun.
It was an intention to capture what looked like fun.
That fakeness started to wear me down.
Essentially I felt that I needed to get back to my original idea of just having fun,
and appreciate it as is.
I never had that emotional connection to nature.
It was more just an aesthetic appeal, that its beautiful.
It looks good in a shot and that's about it.
But in such a wild space,
when you actually pay attention to it and interact with it,
you can actually have an emotional connection to it.
And it's a realisation that you are connected
and a part of this greater consciousness.
When you are fully submerged
with a carpet of vibrating life around you,
and everything comes to a standstill, and there's just that appreciation
and awe experienced in that moment.
Through the experiences that I've had in the ocean,
have realised just how irrelevant and tiny
I really am in comparison to the consciousness of nature.
The universe doesn't really care about my Instagram account and what I portray.
The fundamental shift was, I was doing it for others.
I'm now purely doing it for me, for myself, expressing myself.
Yah, it's no longer a thing of superficially pretending that I like what I do.
I really love what I do now.
Lost my heart in the ocean, only to find my soul.
That kind of describes me now I guess.
To all of you who have contributed,
for those of you who have shared our films,
for those of you who have written out comments,
this journey is just beginning.
And we've put a Patreon link below our films,
so if you'd like to continue to support us, we'd love for you to donate below.
Thanks so much.