January - PMS 2017
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2017
- "If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change. Hoo." - Batman
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Love this. Feels so different. Love changing things up.
Hey Dan! The chaps in friends were over 27 before they all ended up with their dream lives/partners! x
AllThingsSquare This is the most inspiring thing I've ever read
Make a plaque for your wall! x
putting the 'pretentious' back into pms. i love it
Ah I loved this even though it made my heart hurt for you a bit. You're a good soul with good hair and so, so much ahead.
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This is one of my favorite pms's. It's just so simple and beautiful. You have such an amazing way with words, I am feeling lots of things right now.
this year I'd better see "im blowing up? maybe?" vid on this channel, cause this stuff is SO GOOD
Love you, buddy x
also. lady gaga was 27 when she released Just Dance, and Carly Rae Jepson was 27 when she released Call Me Maybe. you have time x
..Lady Gaga was 22 when The Fame came out
new year, new font
(i'm talking about the thumbnail, btw)
Is it bad that I'm 19 and feel the same way? I know I've got so much life left, and that life has barely begun, but it still feels hollow and the future seems scary and approaching too fast with all my plans and goals, which I'm excited for, but afraid won't ever happen. 16 was my "ultimate age" and I had the "ultimate year" at that age, where I studied abroad and was more social and creative than ever before, and since I've come home, it feels like taking a step back from where I want to go, and myself and personality seems to have also taken a step backwards (I was super social in the U.S. but as soon as I got home, socializing became scary and I get anxious about it).
Malene Simonsen this is spooky, I just made a comment with almost the exact same opening, right down our ages being the same! Know your not alone in this, we must take our cue from Dan, turn left instead of right, and be confident doing it :)
You just continue. Life is life. Sometimes you put in effort and are rewarded with good memories, other times you relax and have duller memories (though perhaps still good ones).
You just continue. Relax when you relax, work when you work. Do whatever. Enjoy
I'm 29 and i know how you feel. I realise that everything in life happens according to our time and our clock. You might look at your friends and some may seem behind you or ahead of you. But they aren't because they are living according to the pace of their clock. You aren't falling behind. It's not your time yet, but it will come :) as will mine.
So, my grandfather recently died, without much warning as well. I feel like you describe. Hollow, empty no sadness nothing. I also have a week of GCSE mocks coming up. I feel utterly unmotivated and confused. I don't know what I'm doing with my life or where I'm going. I don't even enjoy the subjects in school I used to love. I'm going to try and take a new turn this time and try and sort out, get motivated and find some emotions. Here's to you Dan, you've made me want to do something with my life, or at least try and work out something to do. You're great.
I love that little head tilt at "2017 - your move"
I'm turning 24 this year and feel the exact same way. It's amplified by the fact that I just graduated uni at the end of last year and can't stall anymore. Time to make real choices. But I have no direction and feel hollow, so it's hard. It's hard to know what to do when it's the first time in your life that you're not being told what to do, you know? Anyway, I hope that 27 is a good year for you and you find the right prong. I think recognising that hollow feeling is good. It's needed. Because then we can go ahead and change it. And this video was beautiful. An absolute favourite ❤
Your video made me think about my own life and my own achievements so far, quite inspiring.
Fantastic start to PMS Dan, looking forward to February's PMS.
I also just turned 27. At 25 I thought 'I've done a lot for my age'. I felt I was ahead of my goals. When 27 hit I suddenly started to heap the pressure on. I've since thought about it and realised what I have achieved, really it was that my expectations grow bigger with each year.
I feel like i'm going to come back to this video in 2 years when i turn twenty. It's one of those ages you just have imagined so vividly in your head that even being close to what you thought feels subpar. And although i am living a wonderful life filled with great joys and passions that 5 years ago i hardly ever considered being 'my type' or even likely to happen, probably like yourself right now, it's not what i planned then. It tastes bittersweet, this act of letting go of the control you think you have over your life and yourself. But it's the best thing you can do to overcome frustration: remember that everything is in constant flux. Your big shot might not happen at the time you think it was supposed to, but much like the big if-only-i-had's of your lives, the future is an abstraction at best. The only concrete is now, so wear your current self with pride because it's not staying for long or ever coming back. Also i am ridiculously happy that your TOTM is staying with us for another run. Looking forward to seeing your rise to stardom in a baking show musical parody (because if you don't get your singing friends and make a BwL musical special then what is the point). ANYWAYS, i'm rambling now. Post more ya weirdo, i like your words. Bye.
I got chills at the New Years countdown. Your videos always have some odd effect on me and the way you chat to the camera is always like talking to a friend :)
This hit me right in the core. Sitting here, almost 29, feeling the exact same thing...
I hope 2017 brings you (and me, and everyone else) a lot of new possibilities and happiness! :)
I hope 27 is a good year for you then
This is so comforting to watch back
I already love the difference in this pms, my heart aches and I love it
I loved this. Honestly I've been having these feelings, too. In fact, for most of last year I was plagued by them because I'm turning the big 3-0 this year and that made me panic about my life. I'm working through it though and finding ways to challenge myself this year.
Ohh. I really get what you meant about the new beginnings of PMS. I love it, it worked really well. You actually get much more information subconsciously from the "B roll" footage playing beneath the voiceover too.
watching these in the after times feels so weird. Nostalgic almost
3 minutes to say this, is all you need to hear. Back to school tomorrow, and i am glad this is what i watched before the torment comes again. Thanks
I could watch a whole play of Dan reading monologues of his life
'even though my life looks nothing like i planned, it looks like this'
I think it's cos I'm just out of uni and I'm struggling to find direction in my life right now, but this video has just made me cry so much. I want to have my life together and I don't yet and it's terrifying to think about not being where I'd like to be in the future. Argh, this just hit me really hard. Love the new format. Well done Dan. Can't wait to watch the rest of the year.
Sophie Newing it took me two and a half years of uni to finally figure out what sort of direction I wanted to go in, and 7 more months to actually step foot on that path. Yet I still feel lost like that path is so dark with lights scattered every so often along it. You aren't alone in not knowing what you want :)
I agree, and I feel you: although I'm still a university student, I'm terrified about what might come next. I could go on to do a Postgraduate or Masters but am yet to decide what in, and in any case I can't stay in higher education permanently. It's a most unsettling feeling. It may just have to result from experimentation with different types of jobs as one does with music and UA-cam videos, and you may well stumble across the right thing for you by accident. Nobody can have absolute certainty in these things.
So yes, as Rachel said, you are not alone.
I can relate to this so much... at the moment I'm really struggling, I'm the only one of my friends not going to Uni (I have another friend who isn't going but lives an hour a way) it feels they all are going to achieve something and I won't. Granted I have other dreams that isn't uni but I can't help but feel lost. Even though I'm 18 and still in A-level, I still feel like I did during GCSEs... like you said, it feels like nothing's changed. By the way, your videos are helping me so much at the moment, my mental health isn't too good right now and rewatching all your old videos is helping, so thank you! Xxx
27 was the first year I ever felt "old" - and by that I just mean that I didn't feel connected to my age anymore. it's like that feeling when you're in 9th grade and the people in 12th look like straight up adults, but by the time you get to 12th you still feel like a child.
Just found this and made me cry a bit. For the last 3 birthdays I felt a slight panic. Not because I'm getting old but more because I've always imagined myself being somewhere else doing something else. Something I love. I've been hiding - too afraid about the challenges for pursuing my dream. This year I told myself that I have to change. I need to be brave. I really hope that 2017 (even though it's just a number/year) will help us be strong! Loved the video
This is exactly why I stoped making plans for where I wanna be at a certain age. Goals are important but unnecessary pressure is never good and that pressure of where you think you should be in life. Its just to much.
Honestly this is my favorite of these so far.
very excited to watch this next chapter of your life DJLA!
Beautiful beautiful beautiful
This feels like a wonderful monologue which would be amazing to use for a audition
Dan you have me hyped beyond belief, not only for this year's PMS but for what we are going to get to see you do. It sounds like you are ready to go out and really make your mark on the world. Just don't forget to take us along for the ride with you ;)
Dan, that last line was badass!!!!
Oh how relatable this was. I turned 27 last year and found it a strange one, for very similar reasons. Really loved this video!
2016 (not the best year in my life) felt like everyone else at my age is proper adult and I'm in (not very good) disguise. Like I'm not qualified to adulting. Like I was in fourth or fifth season of my life and writers are really struggling to keep it intresting.
When I was younger my friend told me, that she thought, that ironing boards were surfboards that stopped pursuing their dreams and got real jobs. Remembering that, for some reason pushed me to get my shit together and made a promise to execute 2017 better year.
I don't usually comment on videos but I felt the need to this time, Watching this vid, I feel exactly the same way, since I was 18 I thought that at 21 I'll have my shit together and make something of myself. I'm 21 in June and honestly not looking forward to it because nothing has changed. I don't feel content with my life at the moment and I am trying to do something about it. But 21 keeps getting closer each day.Side Note: Your videos are amazing and heartfelt and real, especially pms. And they remind me I should document my life and outings and happy moments to look back on, especially if I feel like I haven't done anything worthwhile, I can look back on them and know that in those moments, I was happy.Thank you Dan
emphasis on the 'pretentious' in this one and i LOVE it.
I've had an age crisis on every year that's ended with a 7. At 17 I was freaked out (holy shit, end of high school), at 27 I freaked out (just lost job that I hated and found another job... that I hated... fuck it, I was supposed to be a vet nurse by now... even though my scores were too low to do anything but a BA in Psych at a dodgy university), at 37 I freaked out (and left my husband and partner of the previous 15 years). Nothing like what I planned for myself at all. You lead a remarkable life with a remarkable group of people. 2017 better watch itself.
I relate to this on a very real level. Turning 25 and I thought I would have accomplished so much more. I've learned if I want to accomplish more I have to do more, but I also have to stop and look around at what I have accomplished that I'm considering "standard" at this point. Sometimes we don't recognize our greatest achievements until we look back on the life we've lived. Being more in the moment for 25.
i am trying SO hard not to cry right now. god dammit. i freaking love these videos, because they make me feel so much less alone and so hopeful for the future. i can escape for a bit. thank you
It looks like we're going to be having the same sort of year. A year that pushes us forward unlike any of them before. Bring it on
I love the way you completely change the style of your PMS and still completely nail it. You're such a wonderfully creative person and I always super enjoy your stuff so that this is your attitude for the coming year makes me very excited :)
This took me back to new years feels. I always get down around new years, it not that I cry every year or can't enjoy myself while feeling this way. It doesn't mather whether I spend it surrounded by friends, family or like past new years and some at ages 14/15 alone. The immense feeling of aloneness and pointlessness overtakes me around that time. I never understand the happiness and new year, new me that you describe about years before and that seems to be the general feeling. So this took me back. Now I don't know where I was going with this anymore, but I wrote this much and can't just delete it because it will be stuck un my head then. Anyways I wish you a good year, I hope you'll be good to you.
I'm only 19, but I felt a kinship with you over the course of watching this, recognising the signs of my own coasting attitude. I know you probably read this and think how different it is to feel like this at 19 compared with your own age, dismissive of the time I have yet to use...but I still relate, hard, to the sensation of 'sameness' in my life. I know I can still turn things around, and your video has made me feel less alone in that respect. Thank you Dan, good luck with the life change :)
This New Year's was the first one when I was surrounded by chosen family instead of family family and for the first time in years I didn't have the hollow feeling. The people we surround ourselves with are so important, and that has really hit home this past year. I can't wait for your next year of PMS :D
I relate to this so much. That age for me was the age I turned this year too, and my birthday's also in January. I struggle with being stuck in frustration/sadness that my life looks how it does instead of pushing myself to make changes in my current situation. Like waiting for the big stuff to just change on its own. Like once that happens, then I'll start moving forward. Almost like I'm passive-aggressively protesting my life for the stuff that I think should have happened by now.
Dan, you put nearly exactly in words what I'm feeling. I also turned 27 in the early days of this year and I have similar experiences. Thank you for showing me love is still around
"That's my life, and it's in my hands"
0:48 Mom and dad. Are so adorable.
As my friend Jena always tells me: nothing changes if nothing changes. Happy 2017 x
wonderfront I like that!
I'm 42 and definitely not where I thought I'd be. Don't be hard on yourself ❤
Dan, I turn 27 this year and I think we're having some similar feelings about life. Years ago, I totally thought that by now I'd be amazingly successful in my intended career, married, etc. - but wow, not even close. Although things are vastly different than I expected, there are a lot of good things I'm happy about which I never could have predicted, and I'm motivated to build on those, even if I may not know quite where to start. In any case, it's nice to know I'm not alone, and I hope 2017 is a positive year for you, whether or not it resembles what you originally pictured.
So here's to a new, and better year, for Daniel J Layton (actor :)) and everybody else too.
i think this may be my favourite PMS of all time. it felt fresh and new and profound, all in three minutes, bravo sir
I relate to this so much. I turn 29 this year and feel as if I haven't succeeded in anything because I haven't gotten to where I thought I would be by now. Which is stupid to put such pressure on myself, but it's hard not to when everyone around you is succeeding and you're just like...not. xxx
All my life I have always felt older than I was and I couldn't wait to get older so I could finally feel like my age. When I turned 27 last year it was the first time I felt like "okay this is fine, we can slow down now". Let's make 27 a great age!
I Turned 24 this month and I felt the exact same as you.
24 and I'm not doing well at all.
when I was younger by 24 I'd have a job, a house, I'd hoped to have had my first holiday abroad.
I'd hoped I could drive.
none of those have happened. its not even because I didn't try, there's barriers there for some because I just can't afford it.
I understand the empty feeling and I relate to this a lot.
let's have a great 2017 Dan, get those goals.
This speaks to me so much. My birthday is on the 4th of January and when I turned 17 I still felt 16, which was weird. When I was a kid I thought being a teenager was going to be the best thing, but I haven't lived it! I'm not going to parties or getting boyfriends or misbehaving or anything, I kinda just sit at home and knit while listening to Harry Potter idk
Feel the same, I really feel like you and I are similar Dan. Thanks for helping me, reminding me that there are others who are feeling the same way
i really like this format of pms
I said it last year and I'll say it again. so happy that Dan is continuing PMS (but know if it starts to not be worth it and it stops that is ok too)
I really love this; it's so seemingly simple and you'd think there'd be 'less' because of the time, but it felt really personal and raw. I look forward to seeing more and what this year brings you!
Dan is a pure man and we need to protect him
I've felt the same way the last 3 years...I now celebrated my 30th birthday and I'm really not where I though I would be. I don't think that feeling will ever go away. I also think that as older you get not much will change from year to year, but looking back maybe 5 years you would see a hell of difference from who you were then. My approach now is that I let life guide me and not all the plans that I've had since I was 15. I'm not the same person that I was then so why should I let that dictate my life?
I'm 27 in July, and I've never related more to a video. I'm really excited to see what this year has in store for you. I know you'll do great things.
Really enjoyed this format :) looking forward the next ones
Loved this start to PMS, can't wait to follow the rest of 2017! :)
Absolutely loved this. So glad you're continuing with PMS this year. :)
Your videos always feel so much longer than they are. They have so much great stuff in them. Can't wait to see what 2017 brings
I love it!! What a beautiful take on PMS
Utterly loved this.
Love this. You always have a way with words! Looking forward to a better 2017 with you x
You've just made me incredibly intrigued about everything to come :)
This is exactly how I felt. My birthday is Jan 19th. I turned 24, still work in fast food, still live with my mum, still can't afford to go to the movies let alone move out. But in 10 days I'll have a diploma in childcare and a fulltime babysitting gig so fingers crossed for change.
you are so unbelievably underrated. this is such a wholesome video which fills me with such comfort. you have a great talent for making videos which are so simple yet feel like home. i love you for that. you deserve the world dan and i hope you get out of this fork in the road. 2017 will bring greatness for you, i know it.
loved this!!
2016 was such a nothing/shitty year for me that since new year every time i have even a slightly nothing/shitty day i get so scared that it will just snow ball into a whole year. That fear can be so tricky because I can feel myself starting to think "oh well, its been a rubbish day/week/month/whatever, may as well just not bother any more" - but im determined to make fear work for me this year, to use it to get up and do better rather than wallow in it. Good luck with 27, im sure you'll make yourself proud.
This hit me hard. Probably because I'm in a similar position. I'll be 26 this year and my little life picture had me planning on having a career and starting a family by now. But as life would have it, I'm back in Canada after two amazing years in London, searching for any type of job to just pay the bills, with no idea what type of career I want or even if I want one, and just starting the whole dating thing and completely unsure of where that will lead. Unfortunately I think our own ideas of where we think our lives will go can be extremely damaging when things don't follow that path. At the age I am now and with the experiences I've had I would never trade them for the life I thought I would have but it also makes me feel like I have no course to follow and nothing to look forward to. I hope you have a wonderful 2017 and can make the changes you need to to find more happiness. Thank you for sharing though. It has helped me realize I also need to make changes in my life!
Omg, Dan. I loved this. Short and sweet and god it hit close to home. Best of luck for 2017 :)
I can't wait to see what you make of this year Dan. I have the feeling it's going to be a good one - you deserve it! x
Wishing you all the best Dan. Your videos always make me smile
oh. oh i loved this. i love this so much.
Actually so happy for this to be back. Have a great year Dan. Keep on creating and being amazing🎉🎉❤️
This was the video I needed. I feel very much the same. Though younger, what you had stated still applies to me. And to be honest, the feeling still crops up every now and then, as it does with many a person I think. But this video has given me that 'oomph' I needed. Thank you.
I also had a come to Jesus moment at 27 where I was terrified by not being where I thought I wanted to be in my early 20s. but what I have figured out since then (30.5 now) is that Im not sure I actually want to be exactly what I thought I wanted to be and maybe where I actually am is actually pretty great.
Reaaally like this minimalistic take on the PMS project. Excited to see what's next
love this new style so much
I want to give this video so many thumbs up... you spoke like you were speaking from inside my brain. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I for one needed it.
Love this...! So stunning Dan, the opening reminded me of 'Love Actually'.
Wishing you all the best for your endeavours. Chookas.
I absolutely loved this! Something so inspirational about this, i just love it. I would wish you good luck with this year, but I don't think you'll need it. You got this.
Love the new format! Also gotta chime in with how dang cute all your friends are esp Tim
I'm so happy that you've continued PMS, this one was such a nice simple and beautiful addition to your already amazing series. I'm excited to see how 2017 works out for you Daniel, you seem to have this motivated vibe -perhaps it's the fear- about you and it's easy to tell you wanna go far this year. I wish you all the best with that I'm sure you're gonna smash this year I have extreme faith in you
YES DUDE!!! you said how i was feeling as well, so perfectly. I can't wait til you blow up and get the recognition you deserve x