The Rules for Being Human

I found The Rules for Being Human crumpled in the corner of an envelope full of papers I brought back with me from my travels in Asia. While a google search came up with a number of other sites which purport to have the "true" rules, I noted that many of them were slanted towards or against some political or religious entity.

These, on the other hand, are just as I received them. Incidently, I myself did not come up with the rules. My copy is unfortunately not attributed. It would have been interesting to see who claimed to have been the first person throughout humanity to discover the rules.

The 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 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. 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 present 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. 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 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 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 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!

Why I am an undecided.


I still don't know who am I going to vote for this coming election.

Bush or Kerry.

There doesn't appear to be much difference between the two, when you get right down to it.

Bush and Kerry are both Yale Grads who belonged to the Skull and Bones club. Both are wealthy, connected through bloodlines to countless past presidents and the current royal family of the U.K. They own planes, drive large boats and have houses all over the country.

They are no more similiar to you and I than a zookeeper is to the orangutans he tends.


The military appears to be split between Bush and Kerry.

Some of those with whom Kerry served has said that he is a hero. Others have called him a liar. Everyone has taken a side in the issue.

I thought about voting for Nader. He has identified the real problems in the world. His only difficulty is that no one really wants to listen to him. Yes, Ralph, we all know you are right but practically speaking, it ain't never gonna change....

Whomever is elected president will face a United States at war, under attack from well-funded Islamic terrorists who despise our way of life and very existence; a United States with a sagging economy, a health insurance collapse and comprised mostly of lazy fat people.

It's a hell of a job, being the President of the United States.

And I can't decide which of these two poor bastards truly deserves it.