The end of summer is upon us. August has come around in the USA. School will be starting soon. Fall sports will once again take over TV’s across the country. Many people in the USA will spend the majority of their day focusing on issues, or events, that have nothing to do with their lives. People should focus on the one life that matters, their own. It is time for people to use the majority of their energy and effort to create the beautiful life they seek.
For centuries people have been programmed to look around outside themselves for a source of beauty, peace and harmony. This leads to the confusion and misery many people experience in 2025. The masses of people seek to find substance/meaning in their life from sources outside themselves. This leads to confusion and often frustration. If you truly want to find any form of purpose/ meaning for your life, you have to look within. Your life is a beautiful work of art, no matter how you view it.
The main reason your life is beautiful is because it is the only one you have. The life you are living at this moment is the one that has the most potential for you. It is a beautiful life that you have created. I know what many people are saying: “What about outside influences?” These exist, but you have to acknowledge these outside influences in order for them to affect you. Your life is the way it is because of the decisions you made. For example, you open yourself up to whatever consequences that take place if you decide to walk into a dark alley. Remember, you decided to walk into that alley. People will see beauty in life once they accept responsibility of the fact that their life is one of their own creation.
This leads us to the distractions and illusions that many people use to seek fulfillment in their lives. One of the main tools of delusion begins in August. Football season is a key component used by many US citizens to find joy and happiness. Football will dominate the minds of a high percentage of the US population for the next seven months. People will use teams and individual athletes as means to find joy and triumph in their lives. People will focus more on what is going on with football teams and players, than what is going on in their lives. This is fine if one wants to go on an emotional roller coaster and tie their existence to an outside entity. Even if your team wins the Super Bowl, or National Championship, does this act bring beauty and harmony to your life? How long can you bask in another’s glory to ignore the fact that you have not developed any in your own life?
The life you have should be your main focus. I am not saying that you should sit in a closet and meditate on your name. I am saying that everything that you may be seeking can be found by focusing on yourself. Accept and understand the fact that what you see in your life is your creation. There is freedom in accepting the truth, that no matter what you see in your life, you created it. The power to make changes to your life is one aspect of this acceptance of responsibility for your life. The knowledge that you can change your life at will is beautiful in itself.
Find the beauty in your life. Beauty is there; all you have to do is open your eyes to it. Use the same fervor that you may use to cheer a team, or gossip about another, to make changes in your existence. Beauty is not something that only a certain faction of people have access to. Beauty is there for all. A beautiful life is your divine birthright.
Frank James IV © 2025
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