The Rules For Being Human
Cherie Carter-Scott
1)You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of time around.
2)You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time 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 or 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, you can them go on to the next lesson.
5)Learning lessons does not end.
There is no part of life that does not contain it's lessons.
If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
6)"There" is no better than "here".
When you are "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 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 to do is look, listen, and trust.
10)YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS.
How true! This was something I didn't want to allow myself. People repeatedly seemed to be saying, "Well you are only human you know!" That wasn't acceptable to me. I could not always be perfect and right but I felt that it was my job in recovery to be the best me I could be each day. I didn't always live up to my expectations and I learned not to beat myself up for falling short of who and what I wanted to be, and yet I felt better within me for having tried.
Before recovery, I didn't try. I had given up on life and I got to the stage where I was sick and tired of being tired and sick. I have been back there a few times since then and it is not a good place to be. Thank God for this program.
