I’ve staying with my friend Libby in Paris.  On the back of her door an intriguing assortment of postcards, posters and collections of wisdom.  I particularly liked these 14 “rules of being human” by Dan Miller - and tracked it down on the internet.  I particularly love the last two, which made me laugh out loud.

When you were born, you didn’t come with an owner’s manual. These guidelines help make life work better!

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but make the best of it because it’s going to be with you for the rest of your life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full time informal school called life on planet Earth.  Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.  Growth is a process of experimentation. ‘Failures’ are as much a part of the process as ‘Successes’
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned.  It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it, then you go to the next lesson.
5. If you don’t learn easy lessons they get harder.  External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state; pain is how your subconscious gets your attention.  First it whispers, then it Yells.  When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes.
6. You will know you have learned a lesson when …
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