I was perusing tiktok as one does and stumbled upon a memorable short that i believe warrants a post. Now keep in mind it isnt everyday you come across a video that provokes a level of attention, relation and action in one’s soul that you feel led to share it in a form of good will towards your common beings. This one was just that, a true strike of gold.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2FmpSH9
For those that don’t wish to collude with the Chinese (that was a joke!!!) I will lay a rough summary so you may avoid following the link.
Sam plays all 3 characters.
One is him laid back on a chair peacefully strumming a harmonic set of chords.
The next 2 characters are also him with one wearing a suit with a red button down shirt and another with a blue button down.
My interpretation is that the 2 suited characters are subset personalities of Sam.
The blue represents a critical version of Sam and the red shirt represents the more violent version of Sam.
The main personality, the one strumming away, is a version of sam that transcends emotions and is at peace.
The video unfolds with sad Sam (blue shirt) criticizing guitar Sam that his playing sucks.
Guitar Sam replies that he is ok with that and it doesn’t have to be good. He replies effortlessly and without stopping as if the criticism never landed on him.
Sad sam begins to ask why he plays if he isnt any good.
Still unaffected and in bliss, guitar Sam replies saying that he wants to.
Sad Sam quips with a confirmation, “you want to suck at playing?”
Mad Sam (red shirt) comes into the mix and snaps with a, “shut up”.
The guitar sam then offers wisdom, “you dont have to be great at everything you do, sometimes you feel like doing things so you do it you know?”
Sad Sam: “why do you have to get deep on me, you know i like busting your chops.” Almost in a way to dismiss that his original criticism wasn’t a serious critique and didn’t warrant the deep reflection.
Guitar Sam humorously offers the same criticism, “well….your terrible at it.” In a way again were he isn’t bothered and is just relaxed.
He then offers a nice gesture of complimenting his shirt. Which I feel eludes to a lore that engulfs his short video universe.
For the creator, I love his work, though the deep emotional stuff isn’t the normal posting for him, all the same when it does it is really good as it lands close to the wheel house I also blog to. He is passionate about spreading compassion to those that deal with interpersonal turmoil that we often give ourselves.
I love this video in particular because of how it grabs hold of our self acted suffering of comparison and displeasure and places logic against it and we see how in the end our distaste for our own standards of ourselves realign to a point of contentment. We don’t have to be great at everything. Because being flawed is a natural trait. You don’t become great by just being great and even if practice doesn’t make you great, that doesn’t mean you cant enjoy blissfully being just another human being.
Now granted this is my interpretation of this skit and he does also do other works that suggests that there is a bigger story behind these characters. So with that in mind, this very brief and condensed summary is me brushing past the details and getting to the point and the evaluation is also the same, me forming a connection between himself and stereotypical personalities. That could be far off from what Sam Alkhabit was intending. But to my credit, you can paint a masterpiece and it will mean a dozen things to a dozen people.
What I do wish to point out in all of this is that the main message is quite clear, do what you love. Not for how great you are at it. Not for what it can provide. Do it because you find meaning and purpose in it. For instance, I am not that great at blogging and it neither provides me income or anything more than a place I can waste my time and listen to the tick tick ticks of the keys on the board and a place to lay down my thoughts. I enjoy it because I believe that perhaps one day it might help someone to read my words and that they may get something from it. Whether I intended on whatever they concluded or not, as long as I believe that it will benefit someone. That truly enough for me to continue this blog.
Consider this read or audiobook which ventures into the idea of being enough.
https://amzn.to/40CxN6G
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