Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The Rules for being Human.

1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY ­ You May like it or hate
it, but it will be yours for the entire period you're around.

2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS ­ You are enrolled in a
fulltime informal school called life. Each day in this school
you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may
like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, ONLY LESSONS ­ growth
is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The
"Failed" experiments are as much a part of the process
as the experiment that ultimately "works".

4. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL LEARNED ­ A lesson
will be presented to you in various forms until you have
learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on
to the next lesson.

5. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END ­ There is no
part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are
alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. "THERE" IS NO BETTER THAN "HERE" ­ When
your "There" has become a "Here", you will simply obtain
another "There" that will, again, look better than "Here".

7. OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU ­ You cannot
love or hate something about another person unless it
reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. WHAT YOU MAKE OF YOUR LIFE IS UP TO YOU ­
You have all the tools and resources you need. What
you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. YOUR ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU ­ The answers to
life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look,
listen and trust.

10. YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS.

3 comments:

Tai said...

I love that. Thanks.

The Snarkess said...

7. OTHERS ARE MERELY MIRRORS OF YOU ­ You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

You are brilliant! I don't know where you found this, but I love it. The Rules of Life. No refunds, no exchanges, no store credit, baby. And no matter how well you gift wrap it..the inside stays the same :)

Dagoth said...

Thanks Claire, But I didn't write this and cannot take credit for it. I've had it so long all I remember about it is that it was on a yellow piece of paper :)
if anyone knows who wrote it I would love to give proper credit...