Ten Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

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.