What if you only had a year to live?

Take a moment and seriously consider your answer to this question. What would you do? Maybe you’d spend your time close to home, appreciating time with loved ones. Or, maybe you’d pack your bags and travel the world. Maybe you’re interested in philanthropy and would dedicate that year to community service. Or maybe you’d spend most of your time alone, quietly reflecting on your life.

But the truth is, you can’t cram a lifetimes worth of experiences, achievements, challenges and friendships into one year. Life doesn’t work that way. But what you can do is make sure that you don’t take your time for granted, and that you consciously choose to pay attention to the things that are most important to you.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. When you open your eyes to the beauty that surrounds you, you not only learn how to live but find what to live for.

Filmed in Swellendam, South Africa.
Featuring Jeremy Puren.
To watch some of Jeremy's own videos, visit his YouTube channel    / @jeremypuren  

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In collaboration with iNous, we recently released a beautiful deck of 52 cards each card containing a quote from one of our films, paired with the activating visual muses of Lanon Prigge. The aim of this deck is to rekindle childlike curiosity and creativity, helping to navigate the shared waters of our human experience with grace and joy. If you’d like to consider purchasing your copy, shop here https://tgc.link/reflections

Who is Reflections of Life? We are Justine and Michael (previously known as Green Renaissance). We use our passion for filmmaking and our love of storytelling, to remind our audience of one simple truth – that we are all human. The more that we understand and believe in this interconnectedness, the more we will treat ourselves, one another, and planet earth with a greater sense of compassion.

Filming by Michael Raimondo
Editing by Jackie Viviers and Justine du Toit

Music sourced from ArtList https://bit.ly/2KfrAt2
Spectral Type O by Yotam Agam
Shiver by Borrtex
Soft Touch by W A T E R F V L L S
Picturesque by Conor McKeever
Oval Window by Yehezkel Raz

A huge thank you to these guys, who gave so generously of their to time to help with translations, enabling us to provide subtitles in the following languages:
Arabic by Mohammad Alkhudhair
Assamese by Partha Protim Borah
Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) by ShunYing Lu
Croatian by Davor Bobanac
Dutch by Karla Greven
English by Justine du Toit
French by Amélie Macoin
Georgian by Qeti Giorgadze
German by Tanja Pütz
Greek by Vicky Polychroni
Hindi by Parul Sharma
Hungarian by Zorka Evetovics
Indonesian by Ary Nuansa
Italian by Grazia Gironella
Japanese by Kaoru Hasegawa
Korean by Chloe Park
Macedonian by Lidija Pusevska Markovska
Persian by Mona Zadsham
Portuguese by Sibylle Steinpass and Lucivani Valvassori
Slovenian by Jasmina Kovačič
Spanish by Emanuel Mori
Vietnamese by Thi Le