FW: [at-l] Entering Radio Silence

[spiriteagle99 at hotmail.com (Jim and/or Ginny Owen)]

April wrote:
>Jim,
>  Do you know my father? *horrified look* He cursed me with that same
>particular Chinese curse when I was 15.  "May you live in interesting
>times."  At 15 I thought interesting = fun and exciting and good.

April -
That curse has variously been attributed to the Chinese, the Irish, the 
Yiddish and a rough dozen of the other tribes of man.  Doesn't really matter 
where it came from though, does it - it works.  <G>


>At 34 I know that interesting = exciting.... but fun and good are not 
>always part of that.  I keep asking when he's going to lift his curse, but 
>he says I'm "not done learning yet"... whatever that may mean.
>
>*grins* keep cursing, keeps life from being dull and boring


For those who are truly alive, life is never dull and boring.  So little 
time, so much to learn, to do, to experience.

Learning - is an interesting subject.  If you're a "real" person (and I 
think you are), you'll be done learning only after they've shovelled earth 
in your face.  So I'll give you this (it's even trail-related) - try it on 
for size -- it might fit.   <G>
Jim



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 lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3.  There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and 
error and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of 
the process as the experiments that ultimately "work".

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, you can 
then 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 lessons to be learned.

6.  "There" is no better place than "here". When your "there" has become 
"here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better 
than "here" (which used to be "there".)

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.

8.  What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and 
resources you need. The choice is yours.

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

10.  You will forget all this.

(Rules for being human - a set of ten interrelated axioms of unknown 
authorship but "Found on a refrigerator in Toronto").

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