Problematic's Rules of Living part 3

 It's been a long time coming, but I'd like to present you the third installment of my Rules of Living. You can find the first installment here, and the second part here.

Rule 36: Be not ashamed of tripping over flat surfaces.
Corollary to Rule 36: Be ye less ashamed of tripping over stairs.
Rule 35: Never argue with the driver.
Rule 34: The rain is made for dancing in.
Rule 33: Everyone deserves to be heard.
Rule 32:  Pain is merely an electro-chemical impulse.
Corollary to Rule 32: Pain is a figment of the imagination.
Rule 31: Even a nobody is somebody to someone.
Corollary to Rule 31: Be somebody to many.
Rule 30: Know your enemy as yourself.
Rule 29: True friends stab from the front
Rule 28: Seek first to understand before you are understood
Rule 27: Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
Rule 26: The Truth stands up to questioning.
Corollary to Rule 26: Question everything.

Problematic's Rules of Living, part 2

While it would be great if inspiration came all at once, it doesn't. Thus, I present you the second installment of my rules of living.  And if they seem a little less trivial than they should, just insert them into the first list as you feel appropriate.

Rule 13: "Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?" GKC
Rule 14: I will never leave a fallen comrade
Rule 15: It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice
Rule 16: Victory favors the well-prepared
Rule 17: Be the light at the end of someone's tunnel (Shamefully stolen from Escapist's blog)
Rule 18:  Love never fails. I Corinthians 13:8
Rule 19: If you're going to crash, crash hard. (Stolen from February Rain)
Corollary to Rule 19: Injuries are inevitable, so there's no point avoiding them. Live vicariously.
Rule 20: "Life itself is a quotation." Jorge Luis Borge (your-hay Louise bor-hay)
Rule 21: That which does not kill me makes me stronger
Corollary: That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable
Rule 22: When people are free to do as they please, they usually end up imitating each other.
Rule 23: It's always darkest before it goes pitch black
Rule 24: "Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady."  Edith Head
Rule 25: Invisible friends count as real ones.

B

Good advice

Today, I had an amazing realization: There's advice on the drawstrings of my favorite sweatpants! Not only that, but it's pretty good advice at that.

How did I find this out? Well, being the immensely stereotypical homeschooler, I happened to be wearing these sweatpants during my violin practice today.  And I noticed their advice. I fully intend to follow it from now on.

1. Color outside the lines
2. Let yourself daydream
3. Agree with your imagination (Wait... what? nvm)
4. Laugh at the rules.

Thank you, I think I'll do that. And maybe the advice will show up in the next installment of my rules of living.

B

Problematic's Rules of Living

I will now present to you a few of my mostly light-hearted truths of life. They are things I try to incorporate into my daily life, and maybe you can too. NB: These are newly rearranged in order of importance.

Rule 12: "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." Oscar Wilde
Rule 11: "Chocolate flavor" is not chocolate.
Rule 10: Chew, then swallow.
Rule 9: Coming home is always more fun if you have to break and enter to do so.
Rule 8: It is impossible to gracefully hike in a skirt. Either you hike, or you walk gracefully.
Rule 7: "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist." GK Chesterton
Rule 6: If your water has an ingredient list, it's not water.
Rule 5: Music is life.
Rule 4: Living is a hard habit to break.
Rule 3: There is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
Rule 2: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Rule 1: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. Mark 12:30

I have to admit, rules 2 and 1 are the ones where I have the hardest time, but as rule 3 so aptly puts it, there's always hope.

B