Fable Goodman's Page

What can they do

to you? Whatever they want.

They can set you up, they can

bust you, they can break

your fingers, they can

burn your brain with electricity,

blur you with drugs till you

can't walk, can't remember, they can

take your child, wall up

your lover. They can do anything

you can't stop them

from doing. How can you stop

them? Alone, you can fight,

you can refuse, you can

take what revenge you can

but they roll over…

THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN



When you were born, you didn’t come with an ‘owner’s manual’.

Cherie Carter-Scott created what she called “The Rules for Being Human”.

Many people have found these guidelines make life work better.

A lot of people have made their own amendments to the original version.

Here is my version.

(Very little of it is original)





One: You will receive a body.



You may like it or hate it, but it will be…

He loves me for who he thinks I am

but,

who he thinks I am…