Ten Rules
for Being Human
1. You
will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but
it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will
learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal
school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes,
only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and
experimentation.
The
"failed" experiments are as much a part of the
process as the experiments that ultimately
"work."
4. Lessons are
repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be
presented to you in various forms
until you have
learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to
the next lesson.
5. Learning
lessons does not end. There's no part of life that
doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive,
that means
there are still lessons to be learned.
6.
"There" is no better a place than
"here." When your "there" has become
a "here", you will simply
obtain another
"there" that will again look better than
"here."
7. Other people
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 within you. The answers to life's questions lie
within you. All you need to do is
look, listen,
and trust.
10. You will forget all
this.
Cherie Carter-Scott