While organizing my old Japan files, I came across this photo and it reminded me of one of my biggest regrets โ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ซ.
Google offered us a number of opportunities in the past. In 2016, they invited us to a YouTubers gathering in Japan to represent PH even though we werenโt active on the channel. They showed us around their YouTube facilities, and we had a great time.
A few months later, Google Philippines set a meeting with us to convince us to jumpstart our YouTube channel. They said there wasnโt that many travel video content coming from PH at the time. They offered all sorts of support.
They were really pushing us to create more videos on YouTube. ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐งโ๐ญ.
Why didnโt we? 3 things: One, because we were so uncomfortable putting ourselves in front of the camera or even just using voiceovers. I, for starters, was so conscious about my looks and my voice. Vins had his own set of insecurities, too.
Second, making videos takes a lot of time and resources. It would transform our travel experience. We didnโt want to be the type who films everything on our trip and not live in the moment.
Lastly, because we chose to stay within our comfort zone โ writing more articles. It was working really well for us. So it wasnโt a bad decision per se.
But given how much we enjoy making YouTube videos now and how rewarding it has been, we really shouldโve embraced videos right then and there.
I wonder what our channel would be like today had we taken it seriously at the time.
Na-share ko lang naman. Ang lesson siguro dito is, โpag binigyan ka ng tinapay, โwag ka nang maarte, kainin mo na lang. ๐