Rules For Being Human

Rules For Being Human
April 1st, 2011
By: Gina Roman
 
This morning my first thought was lent and the fact of how some people decide to fast and others don’t eat meat during these sacred weeks. This time is always a time for rebirth, a time to rejoice and make promises to be better human beings.
That led me to ask myself, “ Who do you want to be for the rest of your life?” With that inquiry in mind, I took a stand to make some very serious decisions that will impact the rest of my life. Some of these decisions require A LOT of mental discipline which I am Ready for.

I made an oath to change a few bad aspects of my life for the better. The reason why I made this decision is because many times we tend to ask, request, plead, and beg God and life to bring nothing but good things to our life yet we are rarely willing to give up our flaws or sacrifice our mundane desires. Many times we wonder why we are not showered with blessings when in reality we are but we neglect to see it and much less do we accept divine guidance. Most of the time we act out of impulse and we make many mistakes because we refuse to listen and then we wonder why we are so unfortunate and unloved by God.
 
Although lent is a time to repent for our wrong doings and be better persons, we don't have to wait for this specific time. In fact, I just finished reading the biography of  Mother Theresa and this line touched me very deeply and I promised myself that now is the time to start going by this,  “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier,” and, “The world is not only hungry for food, but also for love, affection and inner beauty.”
Give love to every single person that comes across your journey as every single one of them comes to your life for a reason; whether it be to stay in your life forever, to teach you a lesson, to help you know yourself more, to help you be a better person or for many more reasons.

At times when we go through down moments we become very negative and we tend to take it out on the wrong people in the wrong way. I've done that in the past and I didn’t realize it or much less accept the fact that sometimes life puts us through situations to test our faith and to see how we will react.
The good thing out of this though is that I now know that life gives us many opportunities and they won't sit around waiting for us to be "ready." They come very quickly and they vanish much quicker; but best of all is that there is always tomorrow because that tomorrow always gives us a chance to start all over again if we want to make it happen with all our heart.

With this in mind, the older I get, the more rules I set
 
Rules For Being Human:
You will receive a body, you may like it or hate it but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
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 irrelevante and stupid.
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.”
A lesson is repeated until it’s learned.
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it, then you can go on to the next lesson.
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.
“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.”
Others are simply mirrors of you.
You cannot love or hate something about another person.
Unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
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.
The answers lie inside you.
All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
You will forget all of this at Birth.