The Rules For Being Human . . . (Anonymous)

1.     You will receive a body
        You may like it or hate it, but it is yours for your entire 
        period on earth.


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 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 it is learned
       A lesson will be presented to you in various forms 
        until you have learned it.   When you have learned 
        it then you can move 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 simply 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 the tools and resources you need, what 
         you do with them is up to you.  The choice is yours.


9.     The answers lie inside of you
        The answers to life's questions lie inside of you.   
        All you need to do is look, listen and trust.


10.  You will forget all this.