Dès Vu: The Awareness That This Will Become A Memory

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2015
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    ETYMOLOGY
    From French dès vu, "seen as soon as" or "seen from this point forward." Like déjà vu, but in the reverse order-already remembering something as you're living it.
    WHAT IS THAT MUSIC?
    "The Bell Jar" by Aaron Peter Robinson & Justin John Shearn
    TRANSCRIPT
    You were born on a moving train.
    And even though it feels like you're standing still,
    time is sweeping past you, right where you sit.
    But once in a while you look up,
    and actually feel the inertia,
    and watch as the present turns into a memory
    -as if some future you is already looking back on it.
    Dès Vu.
    One day you’ll remember this moment,
    and it’ll mean something very different.
    Maybe you’ll cringe and laugh,
    or brim with pride, aching to return.
    or notice some detail hidden in the scene,
    a future landmark making its first appearance
    or discreetly taking its final bow.
    So you try to sense it ahead of time, looking for clues,
    as if you’re walking through the memory while it’s still happening,
    feeling for all the world like a time traveler.
    The world around you is secretly strange:
    some details are charming and dated,
    others precious and irretrievable,
    but all fade into the quaint texture of the day.
    You try to read the faces around you,
    each fretting about the day’s concerns,
    not yet realizing that this world is already out of their hands.
    That it doesn’t have to be this way, it just sort of happened,
    and everything will soon be completely different.
    Because you really are a time traveler,
    leaping into the future in little tentative steps.
    Just a kid stuck in a strange land without a map,
    With nothing to do but soak in the moment
    and take one last look before moving on.
    But another part of you is already an old man,
    looking back on things.
    Waiting at the door for his granddaughter,
    who’s trying to make her way home for a visit.
    You are two people still separated by an ocean of time,
    Part of you bursting to talk about what you saw,
    Part of you longing to tell you what it means.
    CREDITS
    Vimeo.com - Creative Commons Attribution License
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    The Train by Clara Cullen vimeo.com/33404470
    Train by Onn Halpern vimeo.com/51022270
    70 Anos by Carlos Vieira vimeo.com/120715339
    41st to 14th by Andrew Price vimeo.com/108307824
    My 2012 by Matt Bowers vimeo.com/56944413
    Neon: Short Film by Milan Gandhi vimeo.com/18168900
    Memories of 2013 by Matt Johanning vimeo.com/83468495
    Never Sleep by Colby Moore vimeo.com/106993739
    The London Feeling by Davide Quatela vimeo.com/77505528
    Memories in Moving Pictures 2012 by ER Alviz vimeo.com/57193728
    Ben // Year One by Scott Svare t.co/bPg7M9hkkQ
    M is for Memories by Ellise Pizer vimeo.com/78309654
    Time for the Soul by Jasper Enujuba vimeo.com/112910338
    Footprints by WeiJia vimeo.com/67930455
    A Young Man by Clancy Morgan vimeo.com/102297130
    Alaska by Jem Moore vimeo.com/132911734
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  • @sondos1606
    @sondos1606 8 лет назад +384

    "You are two people still separated by an ocean of time"
    :(

    • @theuserintheroom4450
      @theuserintheroom4450 5 лет назад +2

      sondos ahmed By the time I got to your comment, I heard it exactly when I read it.

    • @amiphi2912
      @amiphi2912 5 лет назад +1

      Omg this hits me so hard too

    • @konankunoichi94
      @konankunoichi94 4 года назад +9

      I always wonder what this future me is thinking, looking back on my life. Like what would he have to say to me. Maybe he would laugh at my struggles or cry or throw a fit. He knows where i am, who i am and everything that makes me "me".

  • @alback
    @alback 9 лет назад +541

    IDK if this happens to any of you...
    But sometimes, without a warning, I just remember some random moment from my childhood and highschool life. Something like some random car passing by, something that someone said, a thing that is nothing. It just strikes me, something irelevant from way back when but it wakes up waves of emotion in me.

    • @SantiYounger
      @SantiYounger 4 года назад +22

      I know its 4 years later, but I fully relate to that feeling, does it still happen to you

    • @crazyformyself8375
      @crazyformyself8375 4 года назад +7

      Same

    • @hnyii
      @hnyii 4 года назад +13

      Yes. And sometimes they're a pleasant _"ooh, that happened"._

    • @weirdogiant6886
      @weirdogiant6886 4 года назад +13

      I have this strange memory that came to me randomly. My mom and I are in some small, but tall building. The wallpaper was yellow, with some posters showcasing fruits and vegetables. There was no one in the building, but workers, and the place was filled with tables, chairs, a Subway, and some other restaurant. My mom says it could be from when we went to visit my dad, back before my sisters were born. I don't remember where this was, but it felt weird.

    • @alback
      @alback 4 года назад +5

      Santi Younger yes. Still happens to me at 31.

  • @finnberuldsen4798
    @finnberuldsen4798 9 лет назад +1123

    You can easily find something entertaining on youtube, there is no shortage of entertainers here. Something you very rarely run into here is beauty. Thank you for making this site a little more beautiful.

    • @danielduanetv
      @danielduanetv 9 лет назад +24

      +Finn Beruldsen I feel the same way. It's refreshing.

    • @johnappleseed8369
      @johnappleseed8369 8 лет назад +5

      these sort of channels are the gold of RUclips, sadly there isn't a lot of discovered gold here :(

    • @ElectricityTaster
      @ElectricityTaster 8 лет назад +2

      +Finn Beruldsen Let's share the bootiful: The School of Life, Shane Koyczan and I also find Vsauce to be quite bootiful at times.

    • @finnberuldsen4798
      @finnberuldsen4798 8 лет назад +1

      agun17 Those are some of my favorites

    • @johnappleseed8369
      @johnappleseed8369 8 лет назад +4

      agun17 I love the school of life, it's one of those special channels that leaves you feeling moved after watching, beautiful

  • @TrucosconCartasOfficial
    @TrucosconCartasOfficial 9 лет назад +363

    THIS CHANNEL IS GOLD.

    • @Malabarismo
      @Malabarismo 5 лет назад +5

      This channel is pure Bitcoin.

    • @carlostdied1184
      @carlostdied1184 4 года назад +2

      @@Malabarismo No.

    • @erutanevoli
      @erutanevoli 3 года назад +4

      This channel is something which can't be measured, but only felt. Like a warm hug from the person you love after a long time. The moment when it's raining and everything is ice-cold but your embrace with your loved one is warm. Now tell me, can you measure this beautiful moment in monetary terms? This channel is an artistic beauty.

  • @Yakita60
    @Yakita60 9 лет назад +645

    I get this feeling whenever I have deep conversations with my mother. I just think "... One day my mother won't be here. And I know that I will look back on this moment in the future ..."
    They are not significant moments but I just know I'll look back on them someday in the future.

    • @AkeemThePriince
      @AkeemThePriince 9 лет назад +22

      I feel exactly the same way!

    • @FourTwentyIVXX
      @FourTwentyIVXX 9 лет назад +10

      my mom is the only person who i know has my mind. (maybe that's the other way around) i thought about my daughter at the "granddaughter" part and my shattered heart shook from relevant reflection. I showed my mom a couple of these videos. she really liked them of course.

    • @thehobbyisthub8180
      @thehobbyisthub8180 8 лет назад +12

      +Yakita60 I am living this right now. 3 years ago, my mother succumbed to cancer. The world crashed that day, but what's strange is - even though it crashed, it's still moving.

    • @Yakita60
      @Yakita60 8 лет назад +6

      The Hobbyist Hub Very sorry for your loss. Though with your memories of her, she can never *truly* be gone.

    • @amarannaba4979
      @amarannaba4979 8 лет назад

      Je suis en

  • @Wisperwynd
    @Wisperwynd 9 лет назад +584

    This has become a struggle. More and more I find myself thinking, "This will soon just be a faint memory, this won't last long" and it stops me from enjoying actually happy moments. These times feel unreal and frustrate me and make me want to live the moment as much as I can, but it doesn't really do good.

    • @SaffatBokul
      @SaffatBokul 9 лет назад +14

      +Wisperwynd This was so me until i stopped giving a shit about death. Losing all hope was freedom

    • @acommunistpastry9081
      @acommunistpastry9081 9 лет назад +10

      +Wisperwynd I've since embraced that temporal dilution you described and it really does feel as if you're a time traveler. Rather than fret over the lost instances of perception, you could allow yourself to be swept up in current of your own life. I find it makes things calmer and easier.

    • @MegaCODEOFCONDUCT
      @MegaCODEOFCONDUCT 9 лет назад +4

      +Joseph Favela but when I try to savor the memory it just ends up slipping past me

    • @carbonclouds2974
      @carbonclouds2974 8 лет назад

      every single little thing does something... trust me.

    • @jacokruger555
      @jacokruger555 8 лет назад +11

      I find myself standing alone in crowds of people, everyone having fun together, be it a show of some kind, but I have no need or want to talk to anyone. It's as if I'm standing next to myself.
      Why talk to anyone and risk the hurt of making some amazing memory only to find myself thinking and hurting for that memory in a few days, weeks or years. I do not see the gift in that as some of the previous comments have suggested.
      I avoid family, because just the thought of them makes me tear up, and when I do talk to them I tend to say and act in a hurtful way, because a bad memory is easier to cope with than a good one.

  • @TudorNecula
    @TudorNecula 9 лет назад +328

    the thought that one day, i'll be that little old man sitting on a chair, alone, is depressing.

    • @obscuresorrows
      @obscuresorrows  9 лет назад +140

      The hopeful part of this thought is the idea that you *already are* that old man sitting on a chair looking back, but you secretly have the power to walk through these memories while they're still happening. All it takes is a certain awareness, and you can be more present in the present, and stop trying too hard to find the future.

    • @TudorNecula
      @TudorNecula 9 лет назад +4

      The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows indeed, when you see things from that perspective, as an old man that has the capacity to browse and relive memories just as they happen, it's fascinating to say the least.

    • @TudorNecula
      @TudorNecula 9 лет назад

      Aguila701 for some reason tonight i watched Seeking a Friend for the End of The World, and to tell you the truth, getting hit by a huge space pebble or a nuke, doesnt seem that bad. which reminds me, new doooom date on sept 23 if i'm not mistaking. i feel like people nowadays have a desire to embrace nihilism just so there isn't that boring daily routine w/out any variables (which would also include the way most people die).

    • @BeastBatler
      @BeastBatler 9 лет назад

      +The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Right now you're reliving your life, because at the end of it you were unsatisfied, and the technology was available have a do-over. The catch is that you restart without retaining the knowledge you had when coming back to the present, which results in nothing changing whatsoever. That's what I collected from this, however I still love the way you flow through the endless cascade of words, and choose the perfect combination to unlock wonder, excitement, and hope that my life isn't at a total loss for those sweet, fleeting seconds. Thank you.

    • @oOhedgieOo
      @oOhedgieOo 9 лет назад

      +Tudor Necula You won't be alone

  • @KahokoHinoEEVEE
    @KahokoHinoEEVEE 8 лет назад +229

    This one actually got me crying...

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 9 лет назад +83

    "You are two people separated by an ocean of time."
    I had to stop the video there and think for a bit. It struck close to home. I've always thought one day I will look back on past memories like I do now, with nostalgia.
    But also a kind of sorrow. As that time is long gone, yet is remembered so clearly.

  • @DiproBro
    @DiproBro 8 лет назад +157

    You capture language so elegantly in these videos. I never realized the beauty of this phenomenon even though I experience it almost daily.

    • @martinaee
      @martinaee 7 лет назад +9

      The acceptance of our mortality.

  • @AnalogueAbsynth
    @AnalogueAbsynth 9 лет назад +225

    Unreal, I was thinking about this earlier today.

    • @ahmadkhan12355
      @ahmadkhan12355 9 лет назад +1

      +Incredible Oyster Me too

    • @DoodleRealm
      @DoodleRealm 9 лет назад

      Ya me too bro

    • @DoodleRealm
      @DoodleRealm 9 лет назад

      Ya me too bro

    • @OnlyWednesdays
      @OnlyWednesdays 9 лет назад +1

      +Incredible Oyster I was thinking about it yesterday. It gave me chills then and now.

    • @Lulink013
      @Lulink013 9 лет назад

      same... who can not think about it?

  • @BethanyGraceMusic
    @BethanyGraceMusic 9 лет назад +50

    I literally think about this all the time I'm crying

  • @soulopticc
    @soulopticc 9 лет назад +80

    'SAUDADE' intimate feeling and mood caused by the longing for something absent that is being missed. Thanks

  • @GatoGalactico
    @GatoGalactico 8 лет назад +64

    This will always be my favorite channel.

    • @firstnamelastname6205
      @firstnamelastname6205 3 года назад

      Clfvltlvtltlvltvltvtlvltvltv

    • @Zqrdsx
      @Zqrdsx Год назад +1

      It's been a while, still your favorite?

    • @tuesi
      @tuesi 6 месяцев назад

      RONALDO????

  • @BlueSpooky
    @BlueSpooky 7 лет назад +55

    Is there a word for the feeling that someone might never truly know or understand how important they are to you? I love the concept of the series, and the videos themselves. They really make you reflect, and it's so rare to find things like this. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this by accident.

    • @GageMason
      @GageMason 3 года назад +14

      I have this feeling alot. My wife has depression and severe anxiety, and she means the entire world to me and more, but even though she knows this, I don't think she truly knows just how strong my love and care for her is, and that's a feeling I struggle with often. Thanks for making me feel like its not something that I alone feel.

    • @limnami2417
      @limnami2417 3 года назад +2

      hello i feel the same way like this too :(

    • @firstnamelastname6205
      @firstnamelastname6205 3 года назад +1

      Eeeeee

    • @joshp6061
      @joshp6061 Год назад

      Sorry I’m late, the closest thing I could find is “Unrequited Love” meaning “love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved. The beloved may not be aware of the admirer's deep and pure affection.”

  • @crowbartender
    @crowbartender 9 лет назад +85

    Sometimes I just get a feeling that some completely mundane situation will be a fond memory later in my life. I also have a lot of memories of situations like these, some of my earliest memories are just moments of me eating bread or something obscure like that.

    • @Lulink013
      @Lulink013 9 лет назад +1

      me too. my familly sometime is a little upset that I don't remember the best moments we shared... but our memory is kinda random and so is the future... we will not remember things unless we take a record of them.

    • @iiAngelic
      @iiAngelic 9 лет назад

      +Lulink start a journal and stay committed to it. You don't have to write every day, just keep it up for years.

    • @whispererL
      @whispererL 8 лет назад +4

      +Terroristiananas This is sooo me! I'll never forget, for example, a night back when I was 11 yo; I was sitting in the car and saying to myself : " You'll remember this precise moment for the rest of your life", and there was nothing special about it!

    • @MikeRoberts1964
      @MikeRoberts1964 7 лет назад +2

      I remember the most mundane stuff and sometimes think " You pushed some other, better memory out of my brain for THIS?"

    • @cheveyo1332
      @cheveyo1332 7 лет назад +1

      I remeber being two and have a small snow ball fight with my Dad as we were leaving the house

  • @NerdSyncProductions
    @NerdSyncProductions 9 лет назад +54

    That was beautiful.

  • @sophieandthemiracle5213
    @sophieandthemiracle5213 9 лет назад +59

    I think that your effort to characterise the human soul is at the core of what defines philosophy - trying to grasp and describe something so fundamental that one can, freely quoted from Wittgenstein "not speak of because it only shows itself." Your videos are the most poetic and haunting translational effort to explain such unspeakable truths, and I feel enlightened and strangely understood every time I watch them. I must've said it before, but I'll say it again: thank you.

    • @obscuresorrows
      @obscuresorrows  9 лет назад +26

      +Sophie AndTheMiracle Thank you. For someone who makes these videos alone in a room with a $0 budget, it feels very good to hear that they mean something to you.

  • @TheRainydayvideo
    @TheRainydayvideo 9 лет назад +47

    Yes!! I wanted a word for this. Sometimes while something is happening I feel like I'm filming it with my eyes and I imagine how I would look back of it in time to come.

  • @Zlyzer
    @Zlyzer 7 лет назад +10

    How strange that I would wake up today with a deep sense of the fragility of human existence, and stumble across this channel purely by accident. Your work resonates with my core, and it's so beautifully made. It's the kind of stuff I've always wanted to make. Your video on the passing of time speeding up rocks me; I am 25, laden with anxiety and without any serious skill to craft a career from, yet I have such a notion of urgency to find purpose in my life.

    • @shahxad6533
      @shahxad6533 2 года назад +1

      Oh mannn I really hope you are doing ok now, I really do. although you can still learn a new skill. Have a Bright future.

  • @starwall8755
    @starwall8755 8 лет назад +15

    I know this will be one of 600 comments, one of 6000 likes, on one day out of thousands, and in one life of billions, but that doesn't make me depressed. It makes me cry, cry harder than I have in a long time. But I am not depressed, I am not hopeless. This dés vu I experience perpetually serves to better my understanding, and for that I am less hopeless, and perhaps a little more wise because of it. Thank you for this.

  • @space_cadet2174
    @space_cadet2174 9 лет назад +42

    john, your work is truly beautiful. You help me so much and you don't even know my name or that you are doing it in the first place.

    • @obscuresorrows
      @obscuresorrows  9 лет назад +62

      +Space_cadet One beautiful thing about the internet is that even though each of us makes hundreds of these invisible nameless impacts every day, a few of them can now become a little more visible. Thank you for the comment.

  • @gabyalvarez-malo3951
    @gabyalvarez-malo3951 9 лет назад +6

    "You are two people, still separated by an ocean of time" A beautiful analogy of all the versions of a person. I love how you can somehow explain all my feelings and thoughts on life in one little video.

  • @grandolddrummer
    @grandolddrummer 9 лет назад +99

    What's the word for when The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows posts a video and you see it in your feed and you preemptively well up with emotion?

    • @MirroredReality
      @MirroredReality 9 лет назад +28

      It should be Koeing or Koe, or something like that, in thanks to John Koeing for these words

  • @ooccttoo
    @ooccttoo 9 лет назад +53

    I agree, I always think about things in terms of how I'll remember it

    • @kockgunner
      @kockgunner 9 лет назад +11

      It's dark, but sometimes I think "This picture will look great on my funeral slideshow".

    • @snowflake891000
      @snowflake891000 9 лет назад +1

      +Larry Kwan I thought I was the only one who thought things like that!

    • @cryoshakespeare4465
      @cryoshakespeare4465 9 лет назад +1

      +ExistentialOcto Interesting, I really don't often think of things in terms of how I'll remember them, because the disjoint between who I currently am and who I wish I was and who I used to be is too apparent to me - there's no point in pretending that I'll be able to predict the future self I inhabit or its circumstances, likewise, there's no point in pretending that I can look at the past in any way objectively or with even a moderate degree of representation. When you get older, how the past seems will probably be determined by how happy you are in the present, whether it all worked out okay will be a function of how you feel right now.

    • @amarannaba4979
      @amarannaba4979 8 лет назад

      +Cryoshakespeare . Le

    • @cryoshakespeare4465
      @cryoshakespeare4465 8 лет назад

      Amar Annaba Le cravat bien?

  • @nuplanner5345
    @nuplanner5345 Год назад +3

    This one is beautiful and poignant.
    It’s Sunday night and I’m in the office. And when I retire in a few years, I know none of what I’m doing now will matter.

  • @OliverTobyn
    @OliverTobyn 9 лет назад +3

    I love the fact that you're able to give sense to things I've been unconciously feeling for years and you never cease to amaze me. This one for instance, I've had this awareness since I was about 15. The weird thing is, is that it's not just memorable things, sometimes it's just simple and random things. Like, I remember having this feeling on November 6th 2005 while walking home one night and realizing there was a full moon in the sky. For some reason I also remember the date when I have this awareness.

  • @danielduanetv
    @danielduanetv 9 лет назад +64

    Good stuff. I have much appreciation for the deeper minded youtubers.

    • @obscuresorrows
      @obscuresorrows  9 лет назад +3

      +Daniel Duane Thanks! Can you recommend any others?

    • @danielduanetv
      @danielduanetv 9 лет назад +1

      The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows That's a good question, there's not a lot out there. I make videos of a similar style myself. But one other youtuber that comes to mind is thisbedottie.

    • @Saxophonesnowman
      @Saxophonesnowman 9 лет назад

      +Daniel Duane
      For a slower and very deep youtube channel i really adore Diacoustics II. It's mostly about music, but it has some of the same melancholic, slow, and insightful features as this channel.

    • @ericpa06
      @ericpa06 9 лет назад

      +The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
      John, another very good youtuber is the "Tales of Mere Existence". It's kinda a serious of cartoon deep and philosophical about the human condition and so on. I think you would enjoy it.

    • @obscuresorrows
      @obscuresorrows  9 лет назад +3

      +Eric P. Alvaro I have loved TOME for years. I'd argue that XKCD and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (comics) and, actually, The Onion offer glimpses of that kinda perspective. I think these days satire has more truth to offer than drama.

  • @ran-eg7jo
    @ran-eg7jo 9 лет назад +46

    Is there a word for when your happy and enjoying the moment but suddenly get a feeling of sadness strike you because you know you're happy and that memory will never occur again and you and everyone you are with is going to die but the world keeps moving and you can die any moment like in that exact moment you are enjoying yourself... Nope just me.. Okay

    • @MirroredReality
      @MirroredReality 9 лет назад +9

      But then you say to yourself, "Why should I be happy now if I'll be sad later?" And the answer is, because you'll be sad later.

    • @TheBlackDavidDobrik
      @TheBlackDavidDobrik 9 лет назад +4

      literally! each word you just said is exactly how I feel every time I'm enjoying something? wow that's freaky ..

    • @feixjones
      @feixjones 9 лет назад

      +ƒran Graham (ƒrannnn) There's a great line for that feeling in the film "The Boat That Rocked" /watch?v=arGTbY6w3Yc

    • @jessicaquinn3532
      @jessicaquinn3532 5 лет назад

      I feel this far too often.

    • @roronoaz4lyfe1947
      @roronoaz4lyfe1947 5 лет назад

      I was with you until the dying part lol

  • @LazGato
    @LazGato 3 года назад +2

    Can't believe i lived 5 years without knowing this masterpiece existed.

  • @Finalounet
    @Finalounet 9 лет назад +4

    That one struck me really hard. I believe it's one of your most powerful videos inasmuch as how dès vu can apply to everyone in a very real and intense way.

  • @FlameQwert
    @FlameQwert 8 лет назад +4

    Is it weird that a dictionary of obscure *sorrows* brings joy to me, because I know that out there, there are people who do ponder these things. And how beautiful these ponderances are

  • @stischer47
    @stischer47 Год назад +3

    This is what I felt when I realized that the present is less than an instance - the future becomes the past in less than an instance, forever irretrievable.

  • @angelasong9105
    @angelasong9105 3 года назад +1

    This word is strangely comforting. Even though you might feel sad in the happy moments that it will be a memory soon, the same applies for any suffering and hell that you might go through. It might feel really terrible in the moment, but it will not last forever because it simply can’t.

  • @DWZBT
    @DWZBT 9 лет назад +8

    This actually happens to me quite often. A few months ago I went for an Outward Bound course, and I learnt to make it through tough times by imagining myself in the future looking back at it, as troubles often seem much easier on hindsight.

  • @roiconchada1808
    @roiconchada1808 3 года назад +1

    Why on earth I only discovered this channel now? But right now, I’m going to cry watching this video.

  • @07derka
    @07derka 9 лет назад +4

    2:18 sent chills throughout my body, i just wanna cry now

  • @seattlepilot
    @seattlepilot 9 лет назад +6

    I relate to this SO much. I do this all of the time. I remember, months ago now, these moments where I would be in the midst of doing something or just enjoying the day and I would try and capture it in my mind and I would be thinking "this is fleeting" and I'd be thinking "soon this will be yesterday, and then last week, and then last month, and then last year" and I remember specific moments where I was thinking that, and it's true.

  • @flin823
    @flin823 8 лет назад +3

    These videos make me tear up every time. Like, a combination of profoundly sad, humbled, and contemplative. Whatever it is, it's real and deep.

  • @ppipowerclass
    @ppipowerclass 8 лет назад +3

    It bothers me that I have shown this to several people and they don't GET it. It's depressing. This is such an amazingly beautiful video that enunciates this perfectly in a way that I couldn't put into form.

  • @BlueThing64
    @BlueThing64 9 лет назад +3

    I do this all the time, I'm just sitting on the bus and I'll just think, "Tomorrow I'm going to remember thinking this." And I always do.

  • @mitchellkramer
    @mitchellkramer 9 лет назад +1

    I am currently an exchange student to France and I experience this almost every day as I try to imagine today as just a memory that I will have in the future.

  • @nowherek5757
    @nowherek5757 3 года назад +1

    i always think this way. in the middle of a happy conversation with my father, a trip with my cousins, getting our first pet dog, running in the sea shore and every little thing like how i think in that days. i know that that will eventually become a memory. that’s why i fear waking up another day because i feel like i’ll be leaving again the past happening of yesterday and forget about it. i always want to stay frozen in time so that i can cherish everything but time keeps moving.

  • @gauravchaudhary9134
    @gauravchaudhary9134 9 лет назад +1

    This reminds me to be nice to everyone and meet new people because after all our lives are only the memories we create. So let's create happy ones!

  • @fiilisboa
    @fiilisboa 9 лет назад +17

    I've missed this channel so much.

  • @SerpentineGraphicsOfficial
    @SerpentineGraphicsOfficial 9 лет назад +46

    Welcome back.

  • @KonceptzOfKnivez
    @KonceptzOfKnivez 9 лет назад +6

    I'm so happy there's a second season. These words that describe the feelings you've felt and haven't yet noticed. The videos are extremely well done, from the writing, the editing, to the short speech that comes along with it. Thank you very much for your time and effort with these.

  • @doug339
    @doug339 4 месяца назад +1

    I get this feeling sometimes with my kids, thinking that someday this will just be a memory my kids tell their kids about their grandfather.

  • @TannisReborn
    @TannisReborn 9 лет назад +1

    I can't begin to explain how happy I am to see another upload. This channel is hands down the best I've ever found on RUclips

  • @Elfos64
    @Elfos64 9 лет назад +6

    I missed this series, I'm glad it's back.

  • @lucasborgesdossantos9768
    @lucasborgesdossantos9768 9 лет назад +7

    YOU'RE BAAAACK!!!!!
    Thank you so much man! i've missed you a lot!

  • @TranquilOblivion
    @TranquilOblivion 9 лет назад +1

    This channel is very underrated and deserves to be known.
    Never stop making videos!

  • @woopar305
    @woopar305 9 лет назад +1

    Do you ever get the sense that your life is like a movie that you can’t rewind? You wish you could relive that one scene, but it’s long gone. People, feelings, circumstances play on the screen. You get to watch them for a moment, and then they are gone. It will never be possible to relive that moment in exactly the same way. You could never even explain exactly how it felt. Not because the circumstances or emotions were particularly complicated, but because the moment is shaded and colored by the culmination of your life experience at that exact moment. It is so strangely beautiful to realize, as it is passing, that this moment is completely unique and only there for you. Even if you recreated it perfectly, it wouldn’t be the same, it couldn’t be the same, because you are not the same. The you of yesterday is dead. Before you know it the moment is gone and forever lost. Profoundly beautiful moments only documented by your rapidly vanishing memory, like embers flying off the fire of the present. Beautiful and intricate, slowly fading away into forgotten.

  • @adhiantos
    @adhiantos 9 лет назад +2

    Beautiful as always! As a Buddhist I hold one of the three marks of existence of Buddhism dearly inside of me - that everything is impermanent. I see that every moment will turn into a memory. I am someone who'd rather be forgotten than to forget the beautiful moments I went through that made this (short) life so beautiful. So I spent a lot of time trying to "immortalise" things to photographs and words. My obsession can be a bit scary, but your video and words made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Thank you :)

  • @alyciadweeb
    @alyciadweeb 5 лет назад +1

    This video made me ugly cry in the best possible way. I’ve felt this throughout my entire life but was never able to explain it properly to others. I often wondered if I was the only person who felt this way. Thank you for articulating such a strong emotion in ways that I couldn’t. And thank you for making such powerful art.

  • @weezy6585
    @weezy6585 9 лет назад +11

    This channel has a zen-like feel to it. I like it.

  • @HT-qe7xj
    @HT-qe7xj 9 лет назад +2

    this channel epitomizes the essence of RUclips. I would have felt quite lost trying to chase to find meaning to all these obscure mirage-like emotions.
    your work gives me some peace.
    I am utterly grateful for so eloquently describing something I didn't think could be described.

  • @dreamcx1288
    @dreamcx1288 5 лет назад +1

    I've had that. A moment I knew was literally the happiest moment of my life, happening in real time, me rising above it and recognizing it for what it was, and stopping to take it in with all respect due a feeling of such magnitude. It remains that high point in a 54 year old life. I doubt I'll ever be that happy again. Des vu.

  • @trevorbaugh1335
    @trevorbaugh1335 9 лет назад +1

    I was worried this channel was going to stop producing videos, and I'm immensely glad to see the contrary. The production quality and the emotion put into these is magnificent.

  • @SomeoneOnlyWeKnow.
    @SomeoneOnlyWeKnow. Год назад +2

    This video and the video on _anemoia_ are two of my favourite videos on youtube, as they're both concepts I had become aware of myself but couldn't yet put into words.

  • @LuisFernandoAstorga
    @LuisFernandoAstorga 6 лет назад

    A friend once told me that the price of happy moments is the nostalgia we will forever feel when we remember them.

  • @arib8367
    @arib8367 8 лет назад +5

    I love your channel. It's like you're reaching into my mind, pulling out whatever's in there and reshaping it into youtube videos.

  • @jonnathanpartamian8822
    @jonnathanpartamian8822 9 лет назад +1

    I'm glad you resumed publishing movies to this series. I love most of them and a few are truly remarkable. Congratulations

  • @crojack
    @crojack 9 лет назад +2

    Everytime that I watch your videos it's like a deep emotional part of me comes out! And I start to think about everything around me ! You are amazing

  • @tomogaso
    @tomogaso 9 лет назад +1

    Glad you're back with more videos! The amount of existential melancholy you fit in 3 minutes never ceases to impress me.

  • @CLICKEROFTRUTH
    @CLICKEROFTRUTH 9 лет назад +1

    Im so glad your back. I very recently found your channel and have repeatedly watched your videos for many reasons. One is that the cinematography and the way the videos are pieced together is simply gorgeous. The second is that it feels so great to watch these and read comments and understand that I am not alone in this mindset as I often think. A bonus is that the words sound so beautiful rolling off the tongue. Thank you so much for posting! I will Definitely keep watching as well.

  • @seanflamand8354
    @seanflamand8354 9 лет назад +1

    John, please never stop filling the many holes that exist in the world's languages.

  • @CarlosSpicyWiener111
    @CarlosSpicyWiener111 9 лет назад +1

    I can't begin to say how impressed I am with each of these videos. They never fail to humble me.

  • @johnbruce3387
    @johnbruce3387 9 лет назад +1

    I'm glad you make these videos, they are truly beautiful. This one, in particular, made me feel a bit of heartache. Be proud of what you're doing! It's a rare talent to evoke such emotion from the viewer.

  • @esalinasml
    @esalinasml 3 года назад +1

    For 5 year now I catch myself coming back to this channel every few months to remember. Where is the creator and exploree of this content now? I always hope for new work everytime I come here.

  • @darrensharp7009
    @darrensharp7009 9 лет назад +1

    I have waited with hope for another chapter of this remarkable work. As a high school teacher I have used these videos as learning tools. They are extraordinarily powerful. Thank-you

  • @LeMeene
    @LeMeene 9 лет назад

    This must be one of my favorite videos of yours. The strong feeling touching your soul when you realize, that this wonderful day you just had will never return this way and will always be a memory...
    "You are two people still separated by an ocean of time" was a wonderful metaphor.

  • @harshstorm
    @harshstorm 9 лет назад +1

    when i see that a new video has been uploaded.. i dont see it right away rather i wait for the right time in the day as i know after watching it... i would just sit idle and imagine and wonder and contemplate this and that and everything else.

  • @cleverestx
    @cleverestx 8 лет назад

    My favorite channel on RUclips...you guys literally blow my mind and inspire me to be a better human being, with every video you post.

  • @MrMirageX
    @MrMirageX 9 лет назад +1

    Every time. Every single time I watch one of these I get chills and look at the world a little differently. Thank you for this. Another amazing video.

  • @EinenoHibiki
    @EinenoHibiki 6 лет назад

    I don't think I can relate to all feelings you describe here, or that I would want to feel all of them, but this one is just so perfectly described that it couldn't be better. I can understand this feeling too well. Sometimes moments are so vivid that it doesn't take even a second to realise it'll stay inside your memory forever. Thanks for this wonderful channel!

  • @Sax4565
    @Sax4565 9 лет назад +1

    John Koenig is definetly a person that I'd like to just talk with, for hours and hours... I love your work, keep it up :)

  • @kristianasienna7273
    @kristianasienna7273 7 лет назад

    Ive been feeling this for a long time now yet i couldnt find the word for it; until i stumbled upon this channel. You managed to capture the definition perfectly in just one small video. Keep up the good work!

  • @elton8650
    @elton8650 6 лет назад +1

    I haven’t shed a tear for something so beautiful in so many years. Thank you.

  • @winniew4156
    @winniew4156 3 года назад +2

    This video was recommended to me and I don't know what I was thinking clicking on it at 2 in the morning. It made me nostalgic and sad, actually. It made me replay a lot of fun memories that I will never get to relive again. What's ironic and kind of funny though is that I had this exact feeling the moment I said "goodbye" to the person who introduced me to this channel.

  • @xitzprofessor
    @xitzprofessor 9 лет назад

    I swear, every video you've ever put out has made me cry....They're absolutely beautiful.

  • @limnami2417
    @limnami2417 3 года назад +1

    while looking at my grandma whose almost 80 years old. i always wonder after those many years, did she feel a longing to come back. i feel sad for her. while glancing at her photos when she was young makes me think of how things was in her time. as if, while i’m looking at their photos i get to wonder how did they do when that photo was taken, what was their viewings towards this world. a beautiful yet sad feeling, i want to see the past based on what the person who experienced it. like when someone is telling me a story, i only get the imagination of what happened that time. that’s why i’m longing to see and feel that moment like how they feel and experience it.

  • @Smearsel
    @Smearsel 9 лет назад +19

    Great to see you're not done yet! Can't wait for the next video.

  • @partysean9993
    @partysean9993 5 лет назад +2

    Graduating university in a couple months and I keep finding myself watching this video. I’ve been keeping a journal and taking as much videos as possible but it doesn’t slow the time at all. Not ready to move on but excited to see what happens next.

  • @seanjames5662
    @seanjames5662 9 лет назад +1

    I'm so happy whenever I get a notification that dictionary of obscure sorrows has posted a new video

  • @kf10147
    @kf10147 7 лет назад +1

    I am so close to crying right now this video validates an emotional experience I have been having all my life

  • @e-jg9719
    @e-jg9719 9 лет назад +1

    Thank you for the articulation of these shared, obscure sorrows. Thank you for the understanding I gain after watching your videos. And, paramountly, thank you for making the world easier to live in.
    Thank you for this youtube channel.

  • @ppipowerclass
    @ppipowerclass 5 лет назад

    These videos are absolutely astonishing how well they are put together. Amazing.

  • @jackphillips297
    @jackphillips297 9 лет назад +1

    These are easily my favorite videos on RUclips, thank you for another one!

  • @HaggisDruid
    @HaggisDruid 9 лет назад +2

    I have this sensation on days I love. It's easy to tell when a moment is valuable.

  • @straysheep5312
    @straysheep5312 9 лет назад +1

    Thank God!!! I've been dying to see these videos. Now, it's Chapter 2 in which I hold great expectations. Like always! Best channel I ever subscribed to.

  • @MegaCODEOFCONDUCT
    @MegaCODEOFCONDUCT 9 лет назад +1

    I'm glad you came back I've been with your channel since day one

  • @ioneangilan
    @ioneangilan 9 лет назад +1

    You did such a beautiful job of expressing what we all feel but can't quite get into words. Thank you.

  • @noregrets92
    @noregrets92 9 лет назад +1

    Almost everything i do is structured around creating nostalgic memories to reminisce over later in life. I consider it a psychological pension of sorts. It helps to get through the less pleasant times knowing you'll look back one day and laugh at them.

  • @MrinalPaliwal98
    @MrinalPaliwal98 9 лет назад +1

    Your content is just always beautiful; However this time, the shots that you've put have surpassed the beauty of the thought you were trying to express.
    This time, the shots are just phenomenal.

  • @hexdragon35
    @hexdragon35 7 лет назад

    Thank you so much for existing and creating such meaningful videos. I've been feeling this way for a year-ish now, not knowing how to word things. This video really speaks to my heart, thank you so much.

  • @thappyrahul
    @thappyrahul 9 лет назад +1

    Was waiting for this. Glad that you're back.

  • @hildegaard8826
    @hildegaard8826 3 года назад +2

    words aren't enough to describe koenig's works. beautiful. just beautiful

  • @reubenhayward6974
    @reubenhayward6974 9 лет назад +1

    Glad your back, I have a deep love for your videos, they always strike home.

  • @Mythic2456
    @Mythic2456 9 лет назад

    I have been doing this exact thing for the past couple months
    drifting through the days knowing it would all be gone in the future
    and that everything will become a memory
    and wanting to cherish every moment
    feeling like a time traveler
    Lovely video.
    Thanks.