Lindsey Sterling - The Arena

There is so much meaning behind this music video that I can feel what the director was trying to portray, I will first expand the quote from Theadore Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Shame on the man of cultivated taste who lets refinement to develop in to fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a work day world”

There are 3 main types of Love in greek
Eros - Erotic love, often found in a relationships
Philia - friendship love, one often expressed to one’s sibblings and close friends
Agape - parental love, often shown as the way a parent feels love for their child(ren)

This video shows a display of all types of those,

The couples is in the arena, they are showing off their love to what they feel is important to people in their world, and get negativity from those looking in, to the point where the Eros leave each other, the Plilia harm each other, and the Agape can’t go anywhere without those that don’t have that threaten them….but all is mute, all that matters is the couple in the arena, how they see themselves, and how they see each other. THAT is what is most important.