Living by your own rules

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It is certainly a good idea to live by your own rules.
It does require that you discover the things that are important to you; the things you value above all else. That you find your own truth, and are willing to to act accordingly.

In doing so, you may set yourself apart from others. In living according to your own rules you set yourself up to express your unique potential to the fullest extend. You place yourself in a position to truly shape your own life. To manifest life the way you want it to be, on your conditions.

That is a powerful position to be in!

The danger of living by your own rules lies in the possibility that you only accept your own rules. and discard all others. Whether they make sense or not.

Every once in a while we may see that happening in traffic, where people sometimes seem to create their own rules to act on ~ and consequently they may drive a exceedingly high speeds, run  traffic lights or do something simple like parking in a ‘no-parking-zone’. Because as they have their own set of rules, the regular traffic rules don’t apply to them...

A similar situation may come up while traveling, hiking or sporting.
The difference is that while in traffic we usually on some level understand quite well why those rules are there ~ even if we don’t like playing by them ~ we don’t always have the same comprehension of why the rules exist and what the consequences of breaking them are. And even when we do grasp why the rules were set up ~ for instance to keep us safe while embarking on an endeavor that we may not be very familiar with ~ we feel that ‘bad things only happen to other people’. Therefore the rules don’t apply to us.

In the first example, we don’t only put ourselves at risk, but also all those around us at the time. In the second example we mainly put ourselves at risk. Although when we do get into a situation where we need rescuing, those coming to our aid may enter into a dangerous situation just because we felt that the rules don’t apply to us. Because bad things don’t happen to us.

Because we live by our own rules ~ to the extreme.

It is a good thing to live by our own rules. It is also a good thing to play by the rules of society ~ like traffic and safety rules. As with most things, it is all about keeping the balance. Yet if we do keep the balance, we will find ourselves to be very powerful people.
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