The Rules for Being Human

Long term Kalani-ite Kristal Ornellas recently made a trek home to Massachusetts and stumbled upon her journal from her very first stint as a Kalani volunteer. What she found on one of its pages reads as follows:

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 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. 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 you're "there" has become
"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 something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of you life is up to you. You have all the tools
and resources you need. What you so 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 nad trust.

10. You will forget all this.

11. You can remember it whenever you want.

~ Author Unknown