The rules of being a human
I think these are rules of being human. These are the rules that whether we like it or not will be imposed since we are part of this world. Good or bad, they still worth remembering. They made us who we are now.. So here it goes:
YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period you’re around.
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 think them irrelevant and stupid.
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”.
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, you can then go on to the next lesson.
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.
“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 “Here”.
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.
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.
YOUR ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU
The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS
Unless you consistently stay focused on the goals you have set for yourself, everything you’ve just read won’t mean a thing.
Priorities in life
I was doing this small survey with my friends the other day. I asked them if they have already set their priorities in life or until now they are still struggling to how to prioritize things in their life right now. Some of them says they still have not figure it out yet. Then one of them caught my attention when he gave me this advice…
Never make someone your priority, when you’re only an option.
Yeah, I realized, these past few years, I always made sure that people who became close to me always have this particular place in my priorities. I always end up having this headache how I would always include them in my list of priorities. But later to realized, I am not even included in their priorities because I am just an “option”.
I learned to distinguish now people which are worth prioritizing and just plain option to me. Before, I must admit, I was people pleaser. I tried to please everyone although I know we can’t please everyone and yet I keep on pushing it. And in the end, I am the one getting hurt and frustrated.
I remember a good friend of mine told me, “Mamatay ka lang kaka please sa mga yan. Kung di ka feel nila, wala ka magagawa” (You’ll die pleasing these people. If they don’t like you, you can’t do anything about it). I realized, it’s true. No matter how hard you try to please them, if at the very beginning they don’t like you, then it is not worth pursuing of pleasing them.
Another lesson I’ve learned, why would you even bothered by these people. Are they important to your life? Do they make you a better person? Or you are just really into pleasing them even if its not necessary? If you realized, whatever they say won’t even matter, then ignore and simply walk away. The last thing you would want in your life is to attract negative forces aight? Remember, as long people who knows you personally for the longest time, loves and cares for you, I guess you will be okay.
I just learned that setting priorities in life means knowing which is the most and least important in your life. Right now, my priorities are:
- God
- Family
- Friends
- Work
And the rest, they are just my options.
