Personal Musings – State of mind

Life is a series of choices. What to wear, what to eat, how to react, where to go, who to love, where to work, what to buy when you are paid.

Every single decision you make affects your life journey and determines what you are presented with next.

Spend your life being angry, life provides you with more things to be angry about. Spending your life being happy provides more things for you to be happy about. Spend your life helping others, life not only finds more people for you to help but it also finds people to help you.

For 5 years I have created the Mycreativesimages magazine, never missing a single issue, always putting the magazine as a priority over going to the pub or for a walk with the wife. This last month I set up another similar magazine as I was inspired by the interactions I had seen in a Facebook group of around 6,000 people. I must be crazy, I am doubling the time it takes me to create the magazine each month. I did wonder if it was the right thing to do, I did wonder if I should just stop.

But something happened, something that made me want to continue with both magazines. Two total strangers reached out to me and told me that they thought what I was doing is incredible, they both told me that the magazines looked professional and were exciting.

At the point where I thought I had finally overreached myself and was spreading myself too thin, where I was so tired that I could hardly think straight, life reached out and helped me.

On top of that at a point where I was doubting web3 and crypto currency and on the verge of stepping back to be a spectator again life reached out and gave me a helping hand by showing me that the doors to opportunity are all around me. On the day where I was about to wander off my chosen path a door opened and took me on a side journey which resulted in me receiving a significant (for me) cash injection from a web3 venture I stumbled over.

So I will continue on my web3 journey, I will continue to explore NFTs and the opportunities that will develop from them, I will continue with the Mycreativeimages magazine and the new Creative Talents magazine. I will carry on making art, I will continue taking photographs.

My journey hasn’t reached a folk in the road its only taken a slight diversion and one that took me to a place that reinforced my belief that I can make a difference for other artists, no matter how small, even if its just one sale, even if its just one happy creator and one happy collector then I have achieved what I set out to do, I have helped someone.

As I sit and write this I’m am happy. I help others where I can. I create art. I am like a cloud, changing every second, moving towards to the next exciting encounter, twisting and bending with the currents of wind, forever adapting, until my essence is absorbed into the universal mind and its time to rest and relax.

James Hurley
Photo Artist / Magazine Editor / Human Being