It’s been a year now since I wrote my last blog post. The reason why is that I haven’t done any traveling over the past year. After experimenting with the digital nomad lifestyle for six months between 2023 and 2024, I went back to Nice and prepared to move to Paris in January 2025.
Between building my community platform for movie trailer editors, creating my two online courses on storytelling and editing, and still cutting trailers for clients, I haven’t had much time for myself lately. A few months ago, I was very close to burnout—until last August, when I took two weeks off to travel to Genoa, Portofino, and Brittany.
While in Brittany, I saw something majestic on the beach near our house: fog. And within that fog, two women were walking through it with their feet in the water, holding hands.
The scene seemed to me like a perfect encapsulation of life. We all go through the unknown and expect our loved ones to support us on that journey.
I was a good example of that this year. While building all of the above, I had the full support of my family and close friends. Without them, none of what I did would have been possible. You can’t go through the fog alone.
The unknown is not only this hidden path that you must create for yourself but also the many obstacles that you will face along the way: the people you’ll lose, the stress you’ll gain, the setbacks, and the loss of faith. That is why having people you care about by your side is so important. They allow you to pierce through the fog without getting distracted by the dramas of your life while helping you focus on finding the path that is meant for you.
Sure, some will be able to do all of that by themselves, with lots of grit and determination, but at what cost? Because when you finally find your path and success finally comes along, you won’t be able to share that happy chapter with others. And to quote Christopher McCandless: happiness is only real when shared.
Another epiphany I had while taking a break was to go back to a child’s attitude—stay in the present at all costs and enjoy the little things in life.
Watching kids playing in the water, without overthinking anything in their lives and just being present and having fun, was refreshing.
Later that night, after sunset, I went back to the beach by myself and sat down while admiring a particularly bright and red moon. A moment of stillness that was much needed. Between the bombardment of content on social media and my work as an editor, those moments away from the screens are rarer than ever before. And life is not supposed to be experienced through a laptop or phone. Yet, those devices are now taking a massive part of our daily life.
It’s probably time for me to go back to traveling after this intense period of work. And to avoid the screens as much as I can.
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