The Secret Joy of an Ordinary Life @ReflectionsofLife
The Secret Joy of an Ordinary Life  @ReflectionsofLife
Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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All too often life can feel like a competition to see who is the busiest. Our lives are filled with rushing, stress, anxiety and exhaustion. Being overworked has become a marker of success, and it’s difficult to resist getting caught up in the wave. We're less in tune with our bodies and minds and there's little time left over to simply 'be'.

We don’t need to live life at breakneck speed. There is so much joy and wonder surrounding us in our daily lives - we just need to stop and take time to notice it. And it’s then that we realise that beauty truly is everywhere.

Filmed in Swellendam, South Africa.
Featuring Beneke de Wet.

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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.

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 child-like 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 - tgc.link/reflections

You can also sign up to take part in the Reflections of Life Intentional Journey, receiving a digital copy of each card direct to your email, over a consecutive 52 day period - inous.org/reflections-of-life-intentional-email-journey

Editing - by Jackie Viviers
Sound mix - by Tamryn Breakey

Music sourced from ArtList - bit.ly/2KfrAt2
Homely - by Mattia Vlad Morleo
Nighthawk - by Jon Gegelman
Tremors - by Spearfisher
Victorious - by Simon Wester
Sunfrost - by Dear Gravity
Spiral Limbus - by Yehezkel Raz
I Found Peace When You Found Me - by Sean Williams

A huge thank you to these guys, who so generously gave of their to time to help with language translations:
Arabic - by Mohammad Alkhudhair
Bulgarian - by Slavena Slaveva
Catalan - by Pau Zabaleta
Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) - by Pān Yung Chih
Croatian - by Davor Bobanac
French - by Natalia Hoffsteter
German - by Tanja PĂŒtz
Hindi - by Parul Sharma
Hungarian - by Anita Måté
Indonesian - by Ary Nuansa
Italian - by Vincenzo Mocerino
Korean - by Chloe Park
Malayalam - by Vishnu Reji Haritham
Polish - by Anna Konieczna
Portuguese - by Jonatha Koeller
Romanian - by Iulia Nastase
Russian - by Assiya Marzhanova
Spanish - by Marianne Carrere
Turkish - by Ahsen Aygören
Vietnamese - by Tam Do
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