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Tips on being a human - don’t make your ‘here’ a ‘there’

How often have we not heard somebody utter the words, “I don’t know, it never came with a manual”, I’ve said it many times myself, specifically when faced with a situation I am unsure of handling in the correct manner.  This statement normally occurs after a relatively ludicrous moment (well in my case anyway). It is occasionally used as a ‘scape-goat’ of sorts as, after doing sometime ludicrous, insensitive or just plain stupid, it comforts our conscience to have ‘something’ to blame our actions on. The other comment us humans like to use is, “well I’m only human”, yes, you are, still there are certain unspoken rules I like to refer to as common sense, which we should adhere to.

   Well fortunately (or unfortunately perhaps) I have come across a certain manual of sorts. Here are ten basic principles and tips which may or may not help you should you need some guidance in this department of being human. (Such a pity some of us didn’t find this earlier in life...)

   Tip number 1) upon becoming a human, you will receive a body.  You may like it, or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire duration of your humanness. 2) Upon becoming a human, you are automatically enrolled in a fulltime, informal school called ‘life’. Here you will have the opportunities to learn lessons.  You may like or dislike them. You may think they are stupid and irrelevant. Fact is, you will learn lessons. 3) There are no mistakes, only lessons.  Growth is a process of trial and error, the definition for this is experimentation. The ‘failed’ experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that actually work. 4) A lesson is repeated until learnt (this is where I start sulking). A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learnt from it. When you have learnt, you can proceed to the next lesson. 5) Learning does not end (nope, apparently I am not a genius...yet). There is no part in life that does not contain lessons.  If you are a living, breathing human, there are lessons to be learnt. 6) 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 you ‘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 all lie inside of you, all you need to do is look, listen and trust. 10) You will forget all these tips as you are only human.

   I certainly hope this helps, considering you skip point number 10 of course… but then again, we are only human after all.

Glitter greetings (and all things shiny)

Bohemian B