Day 274- Who sez?

Ever stop to consider whose playbook you follow? The rulebook to which you subscribe?

I'm not talking general human rules, like Be Nice, Share, Tell the Truth, Help Each Other, Don't Steal, Be Good. Those are the rules that we should choose to follow because they make the difference between good and evil, and that's our ultimate choice while we're breathing. I'm referring to the rules we follow that perhaps your parents or past generations or your culture has set up. Rules we never really even think about. We just follow them.

For example, what you should wear, when you should retire, what order your life should follow, what sort of furniture you should have, what you should do for a living, how much money you should make, how you should school your kids, how many careers you should have, and so on. 

I'm just wondering, do you ever stop to think about that? 

I do all the time.  It is, perhaps, one of the most defining moments we can experience as human beings, and it is exciting, liberating, glorious and terrifying, all at the same time. And it can happen more than once.

Who sez you can't live in a van down by the river?

Woo hoo!
Dani