I shouldn’t have walked in......

I just wanted you to understand that the reason the video is mostly my exchanges with him and barely about the house is because I went there to only shoot the house but I couldn’t stop thinking about what his possible situation was and how I could help and so as I was sitting in the house and I was thinking of how I would try to approach him about the conversation to help. And then I just offered the best advice I could unemotionally and objectively and tried to sympathize with him but also explain both points of view that way if need be I could potentially mediate the situation and help him transition to another home as smoothly as possible. Because this was going to happen regardless I can’t change the facts but I can try to remain indifferent on both sides and try and help everyone the best I can.

I have worked as an EMT for the past few years so my personality is shaped a lot by that. I feel for people a lot but in the moment sound very robotic and objective in order to keep my emotions in check and get to the end goal of helping the person as efficiently as possible. I’m not going to sit there and start crying and saying oh my god this is so sad but that doesn’t mean I don’t care. I just show I care by attempting to see the bigger picture and try my best to usher the situation in a positive direction which I feel is way more valuable in any instance than the person that may come off as super empathetic but is unable to perform because of that. I also use humor to cope so imbetween sounding robotic and using humor to deflect how I really feel in certain situations it’s makes for an awkward dynamic that in high stress situations sometimes means I come off as abrasive from the outside looking in but what I’m thinking is usually the polar opposite.

Bare in mind their are parts of the conversation with him and my personal opinions I had to leave out because of who was going to see the video.

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