ajc6@ukc.ac.uk
Mon, 09 Oct 95 16:09:31 bst
> > I dont know where it originated, aside from being posted on someone's fridge... > so I cant give appropriate "publishing" credits as due. > > > ********************************************************************* > > 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 > information 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 learned. A lesson will be presented to > you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have > learned it you can go onto the next lesson. > > 5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does > not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be > learned. > > 6. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" has become > "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look > better than "here". > > 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate > something about another person unless if 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 inside you. The answers to life's questions lie > inside you. ALL you need to do is look, listen and trust. > > 10. You will forget all this.