Annie B's eddy: February 2024

Friday, February 9, 2024

Happy Year of the Wood Dragon Eve!

I carried this list around with me for years.....every once in a while I find it stuffed in one book or another and read it again for a reminder. Today it came across my Facebook feed. Facebook is a double edged sword. In Some ways it has helped to shift human consciousness, in others alienated us from each other.

I really need a break from it at times as it seems to push me towards further isolation.

I sure do wish we could just all remember this list.

*Rules For BEING Human*

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 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 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.