This is Hammer, me and my daughter Debbie. If you look at us, it appears that she is a clone of me. Spitting image of her mother! And the interesting part of the whole thing is we think a lot alike and seem to have the same reasoning power.
I was talking to her the other day and I commented that she had the same reasoning powers that I did and she must have inherited them from me. At that point she told me that many years ago she had come across a paper that someone had written and that the basic rules on that sheet of paper had kept her on a steady course for her life. She read them to me and they sounded like something might have writtem back in my early life..We do not know who wrote them, but I would love to share with all of you. She said her copy was covered with fly poop, grease spots and water marks, but she could still read it and agreed to send it to me. Today it arrived in my mailbox and I copied it for you.
RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
Author unknown
1. 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. 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.
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.
4. 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 go on
to the next lesson.
5. 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.
6. “THERE”
is no better than “HERE”. When you’re “THERE”
has become a “HERE, you will simply obtain another “THERE” that will again look
better than “HERE”.
7. 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about
another person unless is reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
8. 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. 9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside
you. All you need do is look, listen and
trust.
10. You will forget all this.
11. You can remember it whenever you want or need
to.
So thank you to Debbie Keisel for sending this to me so I can share it with others. Who knows, we may make the world a better place if we try hard enough!
