I was going through old video clips around this time, from past years. This one's from July 2017, a little promotional video I had forgotten about making. It was a few months after my daughter was born, I had just lost a job, and I was trying to build awareness for a yo-yo design I had created earlier in the year or in late 2016.
I had sneaked off to the basement sometime in the middle of the night while my kids and their mom were asleep. I had spent most of the evening catching up on dishes and running laundry. At the time, I had been watching a lot of Casey Neistat vlogs and felt inspired by his editing, so I decided to make a clip to promote the yo-yo design.
I tentatively named it Burgeon, but later changed it to Sprout because I wanted to build the yo-yo company with the name Burgeon attached. It was my third attempt at starting a yo-yo brand that sold physical products. Sadly, a few months later, everything fell apart, and I only ever got some prototypes of the design.
Looking back on those years, it's strange. I didn't realize it at the time, but there was a lot of turmoil whenever I was awake back then. Without dwelling too much, I am grateful for the present. I have more room to breathe and think now.
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