For Every Drop of Rain that Falls, A flower Grows
Surfing across the 'Net, I came across this bit of folksy wisdom:
Ten Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott
Copyright © 1998 by Bottom Line Underwriters, Inc.
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Other people are merely 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 all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
Upon reading this, I realized that a great evil has been unleashed on the world, and that I must set things aright by publishing The Truth. Don't bother to thank me. Just knowing I might touch someone with this is payment enough.
Herewith, therefore, are the
Real Ten Rules for Being Human
1. You will be stuck in a body. No matter how well you treat it, it will get weak, ugly, rotten and decrepit on you. Sorry; no substitutions allowed.
2. You will learn lessons. Most of them will be painful. When you learn enough of them, you will finally understand the meaning of life. And then you will die.
3. There are no mistakes. There are, however, massive, irreversible, and devastating fuckups. Expect lots and lots of these.
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson. And so on until you drop dead.
5. Learning lessons does not end. This means that you will experience the pain and anguish of those lessons as long as you are alive. So get used to it.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." “Here” is no better a place than “Hell”. Are you starting to get the idea?
7. Some will tell you that if you hate someone, you are simply hating something that you hate in yourself. This is bullshit. If you hate someone, it is probably because they are an asshole. Don’t think things are more complex than that. It’ll just give you a headache.
8. Some will tell you that what you make of your life is up to you. This is a fucking lie. Life is not something you “make”. Life is something that is inflicted upon you. You have no control whatsoever. Don’t kid yourself.
9. Some will tell you that the answers to life's questions lie within you. If you really think that’s true, try looking within the next time you get fired from a job or evicted from an apartment. Or don’t have enough money to pay for a little food. Then put some ketchup on the answer you get and have it for lunch.
10. Like most idiots on this planet, you will refuse to believe any of this is true. Don’t worry about it. Whether you believe it or not, you will suffer, get sick, lose everything and everyone that is close to you, and die an agonizing death. Keeping that in mind, try to enjoy yourself anyway.
Schmuck.
Ten Rules for Being Human
by Cherie Carter-Scott
Copyright © 1998 by Bottom Line Underwriters, Inc.
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Other people are merely 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 all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
Upon reading this, I realized that a great evil has been unleashed on the world, and that I must set things aright by publishing The Truth. Don't bother to thank me. Just knowing I might touch someone with this is payment enough.
Herewith, therefore, are the
Real Ten Rules for Being Human
1. You will be stuck in a body. No matter how well you treat it, it will get weak, ugly, rotten and decrepit on you. Sorry; no substitutions allowed.
2. You will learn lessons. Most of them will be painful. When you learn enough of them, you will finally understand the meaning of life. And then you will die.
3. There are no mistakes. There are, however, massive, irreversible, and devastating fuckups. Expect lots and lots of these.
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson. And so on until you drop dead.
5. Learning lessons does not end. This means that you will experience the pain and anguish of those lessons as long as you are alive. So get used to it.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." “Here” is no better a place than “Hell”. Are you starting to get the idea?
7. Some will tell you that if you hate someone, you are simply hating something that you hate in yourself. This is bullshit. If you hate someone, it is probably because they are an asshole. Don’t think things are more complex than that. It’ll just give you a headache.
8. Some will tell you that what you make of your life is up to you. This is a fucking lie. Life is not something you “make”. Life is something that is inflicted upon you. You have no control whatsoever. Don’t kid yourself.
9. Some will tell you that the answers to life's questions lie within you. If you really think that’s true, try looking within the next time you get fired from a job or evicted from an apartment. Or don’t have enough money to pay for a little food. Then put some ketchup on the answer you get and have it for lunch.
10. Like most idiots on this planet, you will refuse to believe any of this is true. Don’t worry about it. Whether you believe it or not, you will suffer, get sick, lose everything and everyone that is close to you, and die an agonizing death. Keeping that in mind, try to enjoy yourself anyway.
Schmuck.
posted by Ronin Priestess at 8/07/2006 04:04:00 AM
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