Chicken Soup for the soul - Rules for being human

RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

1. You will receive a bodyYou may likeit or hate it,but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around

2. You will learn lessonsYou are enrolled in a full time informal scholl 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 lessonsGrowth is a process of trial and error.Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works"

4. A lesson is repeated until learnedA lesson will be presenterd to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you haev learned it you go on to the next lesson

5. Learning lessons does not endThere is nopart 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"Where 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 youYou cannot love or hate something about another personunless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself

8. What you make of your life is up to youYou 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 youThe answers to Life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look,listen and trust.

10. You will forget this.