10 Rules for Being Human
 

~ Ten 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 this time around.

2. You will learn lessons.

You are enrolled in a full-time 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 or stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.

Growth is a process of experimentation - trial and error. The so-called "failed experiments" are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work".

4. A Lesson is repeated until learned.

It 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. If you do not learn easy lessons, they become harder. You will know you have learned a lesson when your actions change.

5. Learning lessons does not end.

There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. Every person, every incident is the universal teacher. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here."

Nothing leads to happiness. When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that again will look better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you.

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.

8. What you create of your life is up to you.

You have all the tools and resources your need; what you do with them is up to you.

9. All your answers lie inside you.

All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10. You will forget all of this.



Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.
If Life is a Game, These are the Rules

WOW. I found this in my archives, and it was worth repeating. I am currently working on Life Lesson #4 - apparently I have some life lessons I haven't quite figured out, because the opportunity to learn them has presented itself AGAIN.

UGH.

That HP of mine....what a kidder.

~Cats

I hear you Cat.....

Who said God does not have a sense of humor.

Gorgeous post!!!!!!!

That old #8, gosh, that's a stickler for me.

I'm sitting here with this philosophical box of stuff, crowbar, dental floss, chewing gum, geiger counter, coffee filters, deck of cards, thumbtacks, picnic basket, nail file, pocket spanish dictionary, hair gel, plastic kazoo, ball o' rubber bands, tin foil, 3 corks, lemon zester, ball peen hammer, ten yards of twine, and a bunch of other stuff....trying hard to figure out how to fit them all together to have a good life.

What I mean to say is, sometimes we have these 'tools and resources' but we don't recognize them as such....I stand here scratching my head sometimes, trying to figure out where to get the stuff I need, or how to recombine the stuff I already have so I can have a happier life?

Weird ol' me :) I'll figger it out some day y'all
GiveLove

ouch.....that is SO how my life has been....

Thanks, cats, really good post!

I like rule # 10 the best :)

another one to print out!