We’ve finally come to this point guys, the Daft Punk party is over!
As much as I’m sad that this day has come, I can’t say I’m really surprised by it
much.
Daft Punk has, for the most part, been hiding away for the past few years- dropping little
nuggets of music here and there.
And while they haven’t given a specific reason for their breakup, I think we can reasonably
speculate on the WHY and perhaps use their story to try to gain some useful tidbits about
life and the human condition.
For those of you that are new to this channel, my goal here is to share little lessons about
life in order to make our time on this floating rock a little less scary!
That’s the idea with examining what happened with these guys.
We can learn a lot from taking a look at why Daft Punk split, but first we have to think
back to where it all started.
Let me give you a brief summary of how these baby robots became fully fledged autobots.
Long Ago in the before time uh, 1993-ish, two french dudes formed a music duo where
they started making music in the Le House and Le Techno genres.
In the years following they would go on to release bangers such as Around the World,
Harder Better Faster Stronger, One More Time, and in recent years, Get Lucky and Lose Yourself
to Dance.
Each release just snowballed them into this massive duo winning them an ass load of awards
and even the soundtrack for Tron Legacy which was just..
MMMM (italian kiss thing)
As time went on though, they started to appear less and less with their last headline tour
ending in 2007.
And now after 28 years, The chrome headed duo have hung up their helmets.
They never even got to be fortnite skins.
Now to be fair, 28 years is a loooong time.
But it’s strange to think about, so many people on this planet would do anything to
be in their position.
I mean sure they are set for life, so they don’t need to worry about money, but just
the opportunity to create for a living, and to create forever seems to be the dream for
so many.
Why on earth would they give it all up?
Why wouldn't they want to keep it going?
Well let’s focus on that for a minute.
Imagine all the things in your life that you feel would make you happier.
For most people money is at the top of their mind, but also freedom from work or a job
they like?
I’m sure they would love a nicer house and a healthy family.
Most people who don’t have certain things spend a lot of their time imagining how things
would be if they did have those things, but strangely enough, nothing is EVER how we imagine,
and things hardly ever feel the way we think they will.
We can speculate that the artists behind Daft Punk are happy with their lives but we don’t
know that for sure.
Everything comes at a cost, and that includes creating whatever music you want and having
people actually listen to it.
In order to make music, have others enjoy it, and not have to work a real job you have
to do tons of touring, tons of press functions, tons of time running your business.
You also have to deal with everyone you’ve ever known wanting something from you, and
every person you meet being a fake version of themselves because you are too valuable
for them to risk being who they really are.
The bigger you get the less time you have to actually do the thing you started doing
in the first place: make music.
This kind of life eats away at you, and we can see their use of helmets as evidence of
this.
They didn’t always wear them, and I’m sure that brand recognition is also part of
this, but they’ve even said that a big reason they started to wear them was for the anonymity
it brought.
Most people wouldn’t recognize them walking down the street and although I’m sure fame
is fun at first, after a while it must become tiresome.
Now I don’t say this to do the whole, “oh it’s so hard to be a celebrity” thing.
Their lives are probably better than 99% of the people on this planet’s.
But I do think that Daft Punk breaking up says a lot about human nature as a whole and
there are two big things and one massive thing we can learn from this, things that I know
will improve our lives!
The first thing is to drop a like on this video if you are enjoying it!
I’m kidding but seriously it helps out the channel if you do!
The REAL first thing, and you’ve heard it before, is this: The Grass is always greener
on the other side.
So many times in my life have I said, if only I had more money, if only I had a better job,
if only I could get XYZ I would be happy.
While sometimes that was true to an extent, nothing has ever turned exactly as I imagined.
Our imaginations, our fantasies, are not reality, and when we get those things, they never live
up to our expectations.
That's not to say that wanting those things is bad, quite the opposite!
It’s great to want those things, you just have to be aware that when you get those things,
It won’t be what you think, and you have to be ok with that.
Oftentimes you even find that you thought something would make you happy and it doesn’t.
You still feel empty, still searching for something.
And that’s because you haven’t realized the second takeaway from all this which is
that life is about the journey, not the destination.
Daft punk reached their destination, there was nowhere else for them to go.
But you, you are still on your way, when you achieve that thing or attain that whatever,
the actual thing isn’t what’s going to make you happy.
It’s the pursuit of that thing that will.
Working a crap job for no reason sucks.
Working a crap job temporarily to gain some skill or living in a terrible apartment to
save up for a home sucks too, but it feels way better when you know that you are working
toward something.
You will probably feel great once you achieve your goal, but soon after you will set a new
goal and start working toward that instead.
I’m sure that Daft Punk still want to make music, it’s in their DNA, but they probably
just want to explore new avenues, set new goals.
Which of course brings me to the biggest takeaway.
If you’ve ignored everything else in this video at least pay attention to this: The
biggest thing to realize is that everything in life is temporary.
Nothing can last forever.
Your youth, your energy, your health, your career, your friends, your partner.
All good things must come to an end.
Once you realize this it’s a lot easier to actually enjoy life.
Knowing there is an end to things makes them beautiful in a certain way.
You are less likely to take things for granted and more likely to just enjoy the time you
are in now instead of spending it fantasizing about tomorrow.
Live in the present, enjoy the journey you are on, don’t take what you have for granted.
Basic rules for life.
I wish Daft Punk the best of luck in whatever they end up doing in the future and I hope
their story was eye opening for ya!
If you liked the video be sure to leave a thumbs up.
It really helps out the algorithm and it makes my journey just that much more enjoyable.
Thanks again guys and as always, good luck out there.
Peace.