SHARING has become a pivotal, if not essential, part of our generation. We share everything from the latest apps to Breaking Bad spoilers. If nothing else, the one thing this generation will never be accused of is selfishness. I, too, adore the reciprocal benefits of this shared world of social media. I love shared ideas, quotes, thoughts but most importantly, I love the shared world of art.

Today, I get the pleasure of sharing my art with the world. Lesson Before Love, my debut feature film, will finally be released. This moment comes, however, with its own bittersweet feelings. There was a certain level of protection I had with not releasing my work. It allowed me, to a fault, to remain small. It didn’t allow my dreams and vision to not be shared. I’d lived in this place of fear and self-doubt in the preceding years of the creation of my film. Even with imminent distribution of the project, internal whispers of doubt remained. However, a couple of months ago, I stumbled upon a quote by Theodore Roosevelt.  It reads:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
This quote fundamentally changed how I thought and how I chose to live. I decided to take this moment to be courageous and faith-forward, knowing that as long as I share my HEART, people will receive my ART. I now share my heART with you – ready for victory.
Dui Jarrod
Screenwriter.  Filmmaker.  Essayist.  Dreamer.
Brooklyn, NY
 
 
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