My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. - Michael J. Fox
We tend to twist and turn problems around until they even start to grow.
Here's how I prefer to deal with failure: skip and learn. Today's morning I broke my GoPro camera in a very unintelligent way. That's been a quite expensive mistake, and obviously I wasn't very happy about it.
Still, since I can't change the situation - turning back time and acting in a different way - I need to forget about it. The only thing I may do now is... think about buying a new one :-)
So here's my "Shooooot, I broke the GoPro clip". Guess how I recorded it!
@surfermarly and her broken toy - Click on the tiny image to watch her talking
Shit happens!
Now here's how my dad would comment the incident if he knew about it:
Usually mistakes are expensive or hurt or both. That's how we learn to not repeat them.
Dad always puts things in a nutshell :-)
Nobody got injured, but the new acquisition of a GoPro will cost me at least $360 dollars. If I opt for the just released new model - the GoPro Hero 6 black - It'd be even $490 dollars.
Few important things in life happen without any cost.
Buying new toys isn't actually such a big deal :-)
If I really decided to buy the new release, the negative experience would even turn into a lucky strike.
They say that with the GoPro Hero 6 they were able to elminate the noise problems the previously model was facing. Do you remember that when I did my vlogs there was always swoosh in the back? Killing the noise would be an excellent reason to opt for the newer release. I'll defininitely check that out later and keep you posted about my decision!
Now I'm still wondering what I need to do in order to break my iPhone 5. It has fallen on the floor uncountable times, but it seems to be immortal. Any recommendations? :-)
By the way: every time you find humor in a complicated situation, you win.
Have a great day, positive people!
Marly -
PS: If you can't display the video on DTube, you can watch this low res YouTube version:
Thanks for your valuable time!
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Zunächst einmal: Herzliches Beileid!
Mein Trost in derartigen Momenten: Werde ich mich in einem Jahr immer noch darüber ärgern? Falls nein, ist alles gut.
Mein Tipp: Gehe an die Stelle, wo du dir dein Knie verletzt hast und werfe das Handy dort hin. Falls es dann kaputt geht, hast du einen negativen Kraftort entdeckt.
Ansonsten: Genieße dein sonniges Inselleben, denn hier in München ist es immer noch grau und feucht. Aber wenigstens soll morgen mal die Sonne scheinen.
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Hahaha, Du bist einfach großartig! Ich sollte alles dorthin bringen, was ich loswerden möchte. Es ist ein sehr dunkler Ort...:-D
Feucht ist es hier auch - aber das liegt per se an der Meerbrise. Mehr Sorgen bereitet mir gerade eher der Blick in Richtung Zermatt & Co.: Schneechaos, Lavinengefahr, von der Außenwelt abgeschottete Orte. Fahre in einem Monat dorthin zum Skifahren... Also zumindest war das bis dato der Plan :-)
Genieß die Sonne morgen!! Sammle einfach die Strahlen ein und pack sie dann an trüberen Tagen wieder aus.
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Ich musste oben noch das Wort "kaputt" ergänzen. Jetzt stimmt der Satz.
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That's the only true attitude, I guess! I was tutoring a student that day when I got into the accident and I found a new positive song for kids This tune couldn't get out of my mind and later the same day after the fall I did exactly as the video advised( brush brush, laugh it off) and it actually helped :)
And you definitely should buy the latest model, it should be much better
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Ouuuu! That's one of these catchy songs that won't ever get out of my head, haha!
So sweet :-)
Ha ha and Ho Ho Ho - Love it!
Thank youuuuuu :-*
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Great positive post.
"Now I'm still wondering what I need to do in order to break my iPhone 5".
Haha. You do not need to break it, you can forget or lose your iPhone by "accident".
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Haha, I tried that a couple of times!!
But then people are like: "Hey, is this your phone here on the table?"
🙄🙄🙄😅
No chance!
Thanks for the positive feedback :-)
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my iphone 5 has fallen from a ferris wheel in the amusement park ...
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a very good post @surfermarly
Thank you for sharing the information.
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keep smile always...
upvoted
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good one sir
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I was very sorry... 😕I can suggest you take care of this link:
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It is really good the way you are giving a good news to the world. I love this your post,,
thank you @surfermarly for sharing with #Us
and very good job, keep it #Up
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Oh sorry about your camera..you are such a positive person.😊
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Good
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Hahahahahahahaha I don't know what to say on this situation is it a motivational or Humorous post .. Still Confused :D :D
But one thing your dad said Great,
You are full of energy and always brings something different for your readers but to be very honest i am feeling bad for this expensive mistake. It was really good with awesome result Anyways you ll get another for sure.
Oh My GOD that sense of humor :D :D :D :D
You always puts a very deep message in your blogs for all of us :)
Stay Blessed, Steem On!
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iphone 5 -- the world will go mad when they phase this one out.
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Haha, it's the best one they've ever created!
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Ooops! I crashed my gopro Hero 4 black once back when it was new. I slammed my DJI Phantom 2 into the side of my gallery. It still worked by scratched the lens. Thankfully I bought insurance on it and gopro or someone replaced the lens. I also most crashed it again, it fell off my truck filming in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Thankfully it was tethered, so I didn't loose it. But It wasn't in its case either...I was using a gimbal. So it could have easily hit the lens again but it didn't. Here is a link to that video
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Haha the Iphone is indestructible! don't worry, I know that with the help of steemit you will soon have your GoPro.
-Be Happy!-
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You may be right :-)
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Fantastic sharing sir..i also like your Dsound...Thanks for sharing
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u have done a great positive post and give really gud message to the steemit family!
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all of your post is always so informative,so i regularly follow your blog. love to read it...........
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Hrmmmm... Is this a sign that you should get a drone instead?
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I already bought one in December, haha :-))
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In that case, get ye to thee electronics store!!!
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I know that feeling. I cracked my phone's screen one time and the cost of fixing was more than half of the cost of getting a new one. So I decided to get a new one.
One closed chapter leads to another. It's always good to turn something that hurts into humour. About the iPhone 5, just carry it along when you're surfing, perhaps it will fall lol
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That's quite cruel, huh? :-)
You're right: one chapter leads to another. But with regards to the phone I'm actually happy that it's that strong. I mean it has been my daily partner for a couple of years now, it's almost like my third arm :-) I can't just cut it off, haha!
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Suggestion to break the iPhone: Drop a Nokia on it.
Jokes aside, it's a healthy attitude to not mull over mistakes. Go you!
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Oh no! 😞 I done something similar with eyeglasses before. The footage didn’t look too bad for an iPhone 5
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Oh, glasses are very prone to such incidents, too! I bought some really expensive ones in New York and took them to the beach. They fell on the ground when I was taking all the stuff out of the car and now they have some nice scratches on them :-(
I'm not very good at keeping up my stuff to be honest...
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Nice post and always positive!
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Oh yeah all the tiiiiime! :-)
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Well as it seems we all get to learn from our mistakes and avoid them in future :)
Hope we all be careful in our times!As now you will be getting the update version as it seems !So everything went on well then ;)
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Sorry about your go pro. The go pro hero 6 also has better framerates for slow motion :) I recommend getting the kupton diving case to help protect it, but the audio is not great in the case. You could possibly just store it in the case so it doesnt get crushed easily.
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Thanks for your recommendations :-) I'm not sure if you watched the video. The way my camera broke was not very common...
In the water I always used a housing, and nothing every happened to the GoPro - so I'll do it the same way once I have the new one. Slow motion is not really interesting to me since I do all the editing in the post-production. In the water sometimes I don't even have time to press the record button before paddling into the wave - no time to switch modes though :-)
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Yes I watched the video, not sure if the case would have protected in this situation but would of helped as the diving case is more solid than the camera by itself. Slow motion is done in post editing. I just leave the mode set to 1080p @ 240 fps where you can slow the speed by 8 times in post production.
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I can't believe your iPhone 5 is still functioning!! It seems that as Apple continues to come out with newer edition phones the more they make them supposedly harder to crack, they always still crack!
I wonder if there is a site that will take Steem/SBD or another crypto for a GoPro?
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Haha, this iPhone is just amazing. It has survived everything and will probably also survive me :-D
I don't believe that you can purchase any electronic devices with Steem already. I guess you'd hardly find a GoPro supplier that accepts BTC, so I'll use my good old fiat though :-)
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Have you checked overstock.com? They probably don't have the latest version though, but probably the 5!
I know they Accept BTC and I heard possibly other cryptos as well! Not sure about Steem!
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To be honest: I've just bought the 6 :-D Couldn't resist.
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I would have done the exact same thing!! :D
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Hehehe
Nice title it is really literal
I kind of handled a situation in a similar manner though.
Before i knew this, the loss almost tore me apart!
But knowing that it's just a toy that got stolen gave me relief!
It was my phone that got stolen!
I did get a better one, unexpectedly!
I learnt something recently in a movie titled I'm not ashamed
And that is
"God does not waste anything, not even the bad things"
About the iPhone...LOL
You could send it to me!
Hehehehe
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That's life! Sometimes an apparently bad situations turns out to become a lucky strike.
Thanks for sharing your own experience :-)
And no: I can't ever give this phone away, I mean it's immortal. It will even survive me I guess - haha!
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🤣🤣😂😂
Unlike mine, LOL
It literally had stroke....LOL..even without falling!
The minimize and home button stopped functioning
I had to format sense into it!
I hope mine survives till i can afford a new one!☺️
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Excelente publicación, me encanta el mar sin dudas que es un lugar para distraerse.
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