The Rules of Being Human

from ancient Sanskrit

1. You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for as long as you live. How you take care of it or fail to take care of it can make an enormous difference in the quality of your life.

2. You will learn lessons.
You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called Life. Each day, you will be presented with opportunities to learn what you 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, error and experimentation. You can learn as much from failure as you can from success. Maybe more.

4. A lesson is repeated until it is 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) then you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end.
There is no stage of life that does not contain some lessons. As long as you live there will be something more to learn.

6. “There” is no better than “here”.
When your “there” has become a “here” you will simply discover another “there” that will again look better than your “here.” Don’t be fooled by believing that the unattainable is better than what you have.

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. When tempted to criticize others, ask yourself why you feel so strongly.

8. What you make of your life is up to you.
You have all the tools and resources you need. What you create with those tools and resources is up to you. Remember that through desire, goal setting and unflagging effort you can have anything you want. Persistence is the key to success.

9. The answers lie inside of you.
The solutions to all of life’s problems lie within your grasp. All you need to do is ask, look, listen and trust yourself.

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found it so motivational, so decided to share it.

Heaven

a very good friend of mine, his father got a cancer. preliminary tests showed existence of cancer in his lungs. my friend went to Dhaka today for advanced tests to be sure about it. yet very few people know about it. even his father doesn’t know. my friend wants to be sure about it first. he told me about this on the day before yesterday. he was hesitating a lot to tell me or not, but he had to tell somebody to share this feeling of pain and sorrow. he doesn’t have a girlfriend and i’m the one of his closest friend in uni. i never saw his father. his hometown located at the west-northern part of Bangladesh where his family live. he is the eldest son of his family. if something happen to his father, he will have to take care of the family. i have tried my best to console him and tried to give him some courage. may Allah help him.

so much pain and suffering in human life, how can we deny to believe in god? without god, where can we rely, who will take care of our pains, where can we find the strength to walk on the road of life that is full of thrones?

17 April, 2011 22:48

Having tough time in uni. bitter exams, disconnected from classmates and as a bonus, distressing long hot days. this situation can goes to be better or worse in upcoming days. Hope i can get rid of it, hope everything will be ok. But one thing is for sure, I need conquer it step by step. I need to be concentrated to the right things, and be aware of every single moments passing by.