The Rules for Being Human


Rule One You Will Receive A Body.

You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

Rule Two 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 you may think them irrelevant and stupid.

Rule Three There Are No Mistakes
Only Lessons.

Growth is a process of trial and error, of experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately”works”.

Rule Four A Lesson Is Repeated
Until It is 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.

Rule Five 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.

Rule Six “There” Is no Better Than “Here”.

When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that again looks better than “here”.

Rule Seven 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.

Rule Eight 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.

Rule Nine The Answers Lie Within You.

The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.


If Life is a Game, These are the Rules Cherie Carter-Scott