“What other people think of you is none if your business” – Mrs. Clark, this is my number one rule cause it’s so very true. & everyone should know this saying. It helps me in so many situations because I’m never worried about what other people think of me anymore. – I believe this cause when Mrs. Clark said it she explained how you shouldn’t care what people think of you, & how you should just be your own person and enjoy life.
“Like everyone, trust no one” - this is my second favorite rule to go by cause you can never trust other people unless they have proven it to you. The only person you can rely on is yourself. – when I heard this I thought it was crazy!, but now I do understand you should like everyone you meet, but just cause you just meet them & they haven’t had problems with you, you shouldn’t trust them until they have earned your trust.
“In order to get respect, you must give it” - I think this rule is very important cause you need to respect others, & respect yourself. – this rule means a lot cause I remember one time in one of my classes, this girl was talking/saying all these mean things about this other girl who was right next to me, & then this girl tried talking about me so I turned around & put her in her place, & she didn’t expect for me to do that and was kind of shocked and scared, but she thought I would sit there and take it, but nope. That’s why I believe in order to get respected you shall respect everyone first.
“Always be open to try new things”- because you never know what you might like& you should try to change your life up every once in a while. – I say this cause if you try to stay the same & are afraid of “change” then you become boring, you always need to try and have fun with different things and not the same, like they say “out with the old in with the new” you never know you might like something a lot better then something else. You’d never know if didn’t try.
“Always try to find the brighter side of things, even when it gets hard” - Everyone I think should go by this rule, because even though life gets stressful, you should try and make the best of what you got. – I say this cause I always used to be bitter & mad when things didn’t go my way or as planned, and my teacher Mrs. Clark had showed me when things go wrong, you can still make your unplanned situations fun and who knows it could be better then what you planned.
“you should always laugh at yourself”- I think that people with a good since of humor are pretty happy with their life & deal with hard situations pretty well, cause they find the funnier stuff out of life. – if you laugh at yourself and have a good humor things won’t be so bad, I HATE when people can’t take a joke & take everything way to seriously, it’s one of my biggest pet peeves, cause if you can’t laugh at yourself when you make mistakes and just be bitter & mad, then how will you ever find the humor of life?
“Family first”- I think everyone should always never resent their family in any way. – I believe this cause one time I was watching this show on tv, & it was about drug addicts and they would choose drugs over their family! & that made me so mad cause your family has been there since day one, and the drugs that the person was addicted to wasn’t even addicted to it that long & they chose to die instead of a family & love, I don’t get how that happens so that’s why id always put my family before anyone and anything.
“forgive & forget” - it think you should always forgive people, & forget the problem you have had with them cause holding grudges against people just makes your life harder & stressful. – I say this cause when people fight over dumb little things, is it really worth it, getting mad and stressing over a little thing, if someone disrespects you then you should just say something, & then forget it. Cause if you waiste your time holding grudges then you have issues with that. Always remember to forget.
“You should never sell yourself short”- you should never settle for less, then your best. Meaning that you should never lower your standers. – I say this cause if you try to find someone who makes you happy & and someone you can relate and get along with and never someone whos lower and treats you like crap.
