Our Fascination with Pop Culture and What It Says About Us

I took a look at the top 500 hits on the Internet andyourself doing those things, traveling to those places,
found that at least 90% of them are related to popmaking huge sums of money, living in grand houses.
culture. Who is dating who, singers, actors, gossip,Why not you? Do you have an underlying belief that
etc. Why are we so fascinated with these larger thanonly "those people" can live a grand life, and you
life stars? Why do we care?settle for reading about it? That is a good place to
I am fascinated with the list of possibilities.start. Examine your beliefs. How do you feel when
How can the fact that Mr. Movie Star is having anyou compare your life to the person that you are
affair with Ms. Movie Star have any impact on ourreading about? Do feelings of not being worthy come
day to day life? I think that there is an underlyingup? Why are you not worthy? Why do you think
desire for escaping one's own life. It is easy to livethat they are? Become a detective of your beliefs.
vicariously through the media. At least someone outDo they serve you? Do they limit you? Where did
there is doing something other than living an ordinaryyou get those beliefs to begin with? Are they really
life. But what does this cost us energetically?true? Who told you that?
If we get what we focus on and create our life byCan you see how by just asking questions you have
our thoughts, what message are we sending out? Bybecome more engaged in your life?
the mere fact of seeking this information, it isNow you have something about you that interests
sending a message out that our lives are not worthyyou? Do you see how asking one question can lead
of attention. There is something lacking. It isto many more questions? The powerful thing about
sometimes painful to take inventory of our own lives.this process is that by merely asking the questions in
It is easier to keep focused "out there." What is thethe right way (a positive way) your subconscious
underlying message sent out to the Universe? "Mymind is instantly getting busy to provide you with
life is so boring and so lacking in interest, I care moreanswers. So instead of asking why someone else has
about people I have never met and most likely willsomething you want, ask yourself, "How can I get
never meet." Wow! What is it about what they arethat?" Then wait for answers that will present
doing that resonates with you? Is it something youthemselves in opportunities and people that will
have wanted to do for as long as you remember?appear in your life to provide you with your desires.
Instead of reading about them doing it, why notAre you now thinking about making some changes in
focus on how you can do it?your own life and care less about the latest gossip?
Does it seem impossible? What would be a smallerIf so, then I applaud you for being open to creating
version of what it is that they are doing, that yousome real change in your life.
could focus on? Allow yourself to dream. See