Through the Walls

Monday, July 19, 2004


Being Human


How are you? I hope that great and especially, enjoying this summer. I’ve been trying to find a way today to start this page and I don’t know how. It’s that I’ve been feeling a bit “down” lately. I don’t know the reason, but I’ve felt this way. It may be because my sentence is getting a bit too heavy or that I’ve noticed that my sons are changing a little with me as the years go by. Perhaps it’s because I miss my family so much. I don’t know... it may be many things. Sometimes I feel sad, like a failure, defeated. I’ve never felt this way. I know it will come to pass, but for now, I feel like this.

Who would have thought that after all these years, it’s now that I feel like this. Maybe I’m looking at life in another way. Before, everything was a joke for me. It was all about having fun and didn’t take anything seriously. I didn’t think about the consequences of my actions. Now, in everything I do, I try to visualize the consequences, good or bad. My feelings have progressed; I value people more, situations that didn’t affect me before, now touch me deeply.

Sometimes I wish I could go to a country other than here, begin a new life where nobody knows me, and start a happy home, true and for the rest of my life. It may be that I’m being more human.

Well, this is all for now and thanks for your support.

Sincerely,

Pedro



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 what you most need to know. The lessons presented are often completely different from those you think you need.

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". You learn as much from failure as you can from success.

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, (as evidenced by a change in your attitude and ultimately your behavior), you can 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 additional lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is not better than "here". When your "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 to you something you love or hate about yourself. When tempted to criticize others, ask yourself what behavior of yours they are mirroring.

8. What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you create with them is up to you. Remember that through desires, goal-setting and right effort you can have anything you want, but not everything you want. Persistence is the key ingredient for success.

9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is ask, look, listen and trust.

10. You will forget all this. You will forget all the above rules unless you regularly practice some means of staying focused and grounded in the present. Your ego will continually try to trick you into blaming your past or becoming anxious about the realities of life.

(Author: Unknown)

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