I love lists, especially when wisdom is condensed down to simplicity and easy reading. Who could ask for more?
The credit for this list goes to Cherie Carter-Scot, Ph.D. If you like it, give her a Google.
Rules For Being Human
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but ut will be yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons. You 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 you may think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, and 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 then 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 ‘there’ 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 merely a mirror 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 out of your life is up to you. (editors note: Add ‘with the permission of your Higher Power’, if so desired.) You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.
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 this.
Cherie Carter-Scot, Ph.D.
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Well this is a very nice list. I am not much into lists but this one says it all. I am sure that it will be forgotten until you read it again. But non the less many people forget that sometimes we have to go back to the basics and this is one list that more people should read.
I like lists….I just forwarded this liset to my dad because I know he would like it. And I do think that number 10 on it is most true. We will forget about this list eventually LOL. But yeah I do like the rules of being human…it’s not far fetched and it’s actually realistic.
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i’m going thru recovery, every bit of hope, as in lesson learned is quite heplful.