When I tell people I’m quitting to live on a trail for 5-6 moths, the number one response has been: Wow I wish I could do that but I’m too career driven. 

The thing is, I’m not really going to quit being a film maker. That’s just not in my blood. Sure I’m leaving a job, but I can’t leave story telling, I love it too much. 

I’ve talked to too many artists in animation who have said: I just wish I had slowed down to have a family, or I wish I had taken more time to travel, or I don’t have time to meet other people outside of film, or I wish I could take more time to work on my own projects. 

So much wishing. . . . you know what I think? I think career goes hand in hand with experiences and perspective. I think, to be the best storyteller/ artist/ writer/ film maker/ scientist/ mathematician/ doctor/ thing that we all strive so hard to be, you have to go live your life! Where else does inspiration come from? How can you spark innovation in stagnant air?

So go! Have new experiences! Book that trip! Start that family! Meet new and interesting people! Make things! Learn something! Then share. and don’t you dare be lazy about it.

Yes I’m leaving my dream job, but I’ll be back with so much more to give.  

 

“The length of his walk uniformly made the length of his writing. If shut up in the house, he did not write at all.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson