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Rules are necessary for the development of society. If they didn’t exist, we’d miss the pleasure of breaking them.
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When we’re young, people tell us the world looks a certain way. Parents tell us how to think. Schools tell us how to think. Religion and TV leave their indelible mark as well. And then at a certain point, if we’re lucky, we realize we can make up our own mind. We realize that nobody sets the rules but ourselves. We find we can design our own life.
We didn’t learn to walk by following rules. We learned by doing, and then by falling over. Repeatedly.
“You are remembered for the rules you break,” Douglas MacArthur said. “If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun,” Katherine Hepburn remarked. “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively,” the Dalai Lama advised. “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it,” Thoreau quipped.
Whatever path you choose, however many roads you travel, we hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there, on behalf of humanity and a better world.
by Skippy Massey
This post originally appeared at the Humboldt Sentinel. Reprinted with permission.
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