Space Engine - Rising Beyond

Alright. Space Engine now. Hope you like it. This was started 10 months ago, but I stopped working on it when I left for Paris. Now that I'm back, it was time to finish it. I've always had this passion for space, like many of you, so I finally took the opportunity and made a video, since Space Engine has all the tools you need. I remember 7 years ago, watching the "Infinity Pre-Alpha Tech Demo" and being in complete awe, then that was post-phoned to make room for Infinity Battlescape...anyway. A lot of research was done to see how I can get the best quality out of the engine ( v.0.9.8.0 ), so I had to edit the config files, some planets too etc. Then put everything into AE and composed it. Warning: Story of my life I've been reflecting a lot lately on what I would like to do in this world, and what it needs from me, like last year, and the year before last year. The question is always: should I study something else and broaden my knowledge, get some degrees and maybe have more security from that point of view or...keep doing what I like, study from what I find on the internet on the subject but maybe being more unstable? I still haven't found an answer. Like in previous phases of my life, I tend to focus too much on things I consider important and that are actually nothing on the absolute scale. TrackMania has become one of those things. It has become a mania that has taken already too much time of my life. I wanted to make 1 video at the start, 2 maximum, just to test it, just like this Space Engine one...but my constant greed of wanting to improve and trying different things pushed me to make 26 of them, not counting the ones I still have to finish. So in order to improve, I wanted to learn more and more about video editing, cinematography, photography, compositing etc. Problem is, I stopped drawing, I stopped building my RC planes, I stopped sailing, I stopped focusing on school, I stopped a lot of my other hobbies just to focus on this. My whole life is on the computer now, and it's not like I live in a place that is polluted, gray and cold. It's a paradise and I'm not taking advantage of it. After my last experience I realised that what satisfies me is not the goals that I have achieved, but the things that I have learned. I learned nothing about filmmaking there, but learned a lot about work and people. This is something I think you learn better with experience rather than with studying. ( Depends on what you are studying of course. ) So this is an important factor of what's keeping me back from trying my best to go to university. I will probably learn many new things there, but are they worth the sacrifice of the things that I would have learned from not going there? I know it's a 1st world problem, and that on the absolute scale again, it's just stupid, but this is what I've been wondering these days...I'm a human too after all. Anyway...I usually avoid writing these things here because each one of you has his own problems and don't need to listen to mine as well...but maybe some of you might find them interesting, I don't know. Speaking of things that I think the world is missing...one of them is "quality", in general. It's a world that wants quantity. It's better having 5 bottles of dirty water than 1 with clean water. Better having 1 broken videogame every year, than having a good one every 5 years. Still better than nothing of course. But people unintentionally agree with that, by buying the dirty water or the broken videogames, so nobody cares about finding a way to sell 5 bottles of clean water or 1 good videogame every year, because the cost would simply not be worth it. ( The water one is just a metaphor, I'm not comparing it to videogames...just to be clear ) So there is a crisis of values, where garbage is being sold like gold to the masses and real gold is appreciated by too few. In conclusion, under these circumstances, my content will not go anywhere. I'm not saying my videos are gold, bu...