The Rules Of Being Human Options

I wrote this down to my journal about 12 years ago from a book I've read. I hope you can enjoy and learn from it as much as I've did.

The Rules of Being Human

You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for as long as you live. How you take care of it or fail to take care of it can make an enormous difference in the quality of your life.

You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called Life. Each day, you will be presented with opportunities to learn what you need to know. The lessons presented are often completely different from those you think you need.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error and experimentation. You can learn as much from failure as you can from success. Maybe more.

A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it (as evidenced by a change in your attitude and ultimately your behavior) then you can go on to the next lesson.

Learning lessons does not end. There is no stage of life that does not contain some lessons. As long as you live there will be something more to learn.

“There” is no better than “here”. When your “there” has become a “here” you will simply discover another “there” that will again look better than your “here.” Don’t be fooled by believing that the unattainable is better than what you have.

Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. When tempted to criticize others, ask yourself why you feel so strongly.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you create with those tools and resources is up to you. Remember that through desire, goal setting and unflagging effort you can have anything you want. Persistence is the key to success.

The answers lie inside of you. The solutions to all of life’s problems lie within your grasp. All you need to do is ask, look, listen and trust yourself.

>>Don’t be fooled by believing that the unattainable is better than what you have.

ah, but why is it unattainable, and why not chase it? - is there some law that says it cannot be? - laws can be bent by magic (if not, then what is magic but useless?)

if you have complete and absolute faith that it will happen, and you tell a mountain to move, it will move, regardless of the huge amounts of people and wildlife it kills or displaces while moving itself

this is the lesson of the ancients, and one we have yet to grasp fully - we are the children of the gods, and thus we inherit their powers as well as their characteristics and origins


>>Others are merely mirrors of you
i am merely a mirror of others, doing unto others as they do unto me - but actually it might be a double-sided mirror, where each does unto others as they would like to be done to (or ask for it) - i only ask to be left alone to follow my foolish path, and for none to follow except very carefully until i have seen what dangers lie along it, and if my wanting to be a prickly hermit causes others to be so to, then what's the problem? - if the entire world populations were prickly hermits there would be no wars