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Yeah, I can't do this anymore.
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Oh, so the question keeps coming up, but the answer has never come out.
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What do you do for a living?
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All right.
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So let's start here.
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11 months ago, almost exactly to this date, I started this flog.
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In fact, I announced it right here.
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I did.
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So out of necessity, necessity for a change in lifestyle and a change in mindset.
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I had come to hate so many aspects of my life who I was, how I used my time, how I'd be remembered.
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It was 5.
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35 PM on March 10th, 2011 exactly one day before the earthquake that devastated Japan.
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I was sitting in a cafe in this location when the news came in.
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I was to be promoted to a full time management position at a company that I worked for for the last couple of years and to start on April 1st.
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It was a dream come true at the time, and I was ecstatic.
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The company was a communications training company, kind of like English training, but a little different.
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And I was given a position running an entire branch job was good.
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It felt safe, I guess not all that different from working at any other corporation.
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But what really makes a job is the people.
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And you see, there is a saying that went around this company.
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Everyone is replaceable.
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Many disagreed, and many more left.
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For some reason.
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I ST I don't know.
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Maybe it was the security, but I never took the time to ask myself if I was really happy on.
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Then I woke up angry one night.
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In fact, I was always angry on.
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I asked myself when had all of this started?
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When had I become so negative?
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The only way I know how to effectively make progress in change is through consistent action on.
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So I started the vlog.
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I kept my job, but I changed how I lived.
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Traded video games for video shoots and Netflix nights for late night edits.
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I was determined to change how I live my life.
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I was determined to do more.
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In fact, I put out over 100 videos in the last 11 months.
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I used the paid holidays that I have to build up my life and even visit my family in Canada for the first time in three years after this visit, though, that everything changed.
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Visited, kind of put me in touch with who I really waas.
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And that was dangerous because I started to realize that I really wasn't happy, uh, coming back.
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I just couldn't take it anymore.
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In fact, I could barely bring myself to put on my suit and going to work in the morning.
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The only time that I felt like I was even alive was when I was playing music or when I was creating something.
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So about the vlog.
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Believe it or not, I never actually expecting anybody to watch this vlog.
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But here we are.
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It was originally intended as an outlet for me to develop my mindset, my skill set and my outlook on the world.
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In fact, all of the little messages that I have shared in this vlog for originally four me or should my life be short lived for my loved ones to remember me by.
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But along the way, I've learned so much about myself, including the fact that I love connecting with people and I love creating all of this.
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Combined with the time with my family, was an eye opener that I just couldn't ignore anymore.
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I knew it was time for a much more serious change.
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Which brings us back to the bridge.
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This'll bridge.
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This bridge has had a significant importance in my life since I started my career.
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You see, this bridge has always been more of a portal between worlds.
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To me on one side sits the business district where my career began.
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In my day to day work, life took place And on the other side where all the things that I saw as life and freedom like Akihabara Asakusa, my home all the things that I love so much you see, I love walking Tokyo helps me clear my head So when I first started my career, I would walk the same road every night and cross this bridge.
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It was so symbolic for me.
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Reaching this bridge was a gateway between these worlds.
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So with this bridge being this symbolic, I couldn't think of a better place to make this announcement on to share this.
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With all of you on April 1st of 2011 and its exact spot, I found out that I'd be starting a career in corporate management at the time It was a dream come true But my dreams have changed.
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So on April 1st of this year 2000 and 18 I quit.
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So today I walked this bridge with an extra special significance.
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Because today, the day that I'm recording this scene right now is my last day of this company.
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I quit because I wasn't happy because change is good.
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And while my life hasn't changed monumentally my mindset has, um I scared.
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Oh, yeah?
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Do I have any idea what's coming next way?
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But I do know there will be doing it together, E.