We wear so many different hats every day… daughter, friend, colleague, and so much more. With so many roles in life, sometimes it can feel like we're being pulled in a hundred different directions and we start to feel lost. How do we balance it all?
While these roles are important because they give us a sense of purpose and validation, we are not the roles we play. We are in fact, the light that animates every soul in the dance that we call life.
If you can accept who you are and be that very person, without fear of rejection, then you’ll no longer need to play ‘roles’ - they’ll have diminished meaning because you become more ‘you’. It takes courage to step into the fullness of just being you. But when you start to do that, you’ll feel a greater appreciation, not just for yourself, but also for the people around you. And you’ll find more peace in your soul.
Filmed in Singapore.
Featuring Siti Nur Iman.
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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 Justine du Toit
Sound mix - by Tamryn Breakey
This video was produced in collaboration with The Everyday People, an online publication that shares inspiring stories of those living in Singapore. It is part of their ongoing video series "A Singapore Story".
Music performances featured in this film -
All the Things You Are - by Siti Nur Iman and Kenzo Nagar (Originally sung by Ella Fitzgerald)
Love is a Beautiful Thing - by Siti Nur Iman and Marielle Solano
(Original by Vulfpeck)
Even in the Evenin’ - by Siti Nur Iman and Kenzo Nagar (Original by Rachael & Vilray)
Music sourced from ArtList - bit.ly/2KfrAt2
Evanescent - by Tamuz Dekel
Dawn - by Salt of the Sound
Small Touch - by Rea Meir
Emerge - by Salt of the Sound
Repetition - by The Melancholicks
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 Shun-Ying Lu
Croatian - by Davor Bobanac
Dutch - by Karla Greven
English - by Justine du Toit
French - by Amélie Macoin
German - by Tanja Pütz
Hindi - by Parul Sharma
Hungarian - by Zorka Evetovics
Indonesian - by Ary Nuansa
Italian - by Grazia Gironella
Korean - by Chloe Park
Macedonian - by Lidija Pusevska Markovska
Malay - by Arman Shah
Polish - by Anna Konieczna
Portuguese - by Sibylle Steinpass and Lucivani Valvassori
Romanian - by Anca Zaharia
Russian - by Assiya Marzhanova
Slovak - by Zuzana Beratsova
Slovenian - by Jasmina Kovačič
Spanish - by Emanuel Mori
Vietnamese - by Thi Le