Change life in life school?

Trigonometry is nice and foreign languages just fabulous, but why don't we learn how to live life in a school?

Our parents are supposed to teach us. And they're doing the best they can, though you may not think so right now :) They do. We may have some complaints about it, but let's assume for the sake of the argument our parents were picture perfect.

If you parents had been picture perfect shoemakers, and taught you the trade, would you have learned shoemaking only from them? Or would you have looked to other sources, schools, Paris shoe designers perhaps? My guess is you would have gone on. So why be satisfied with what we learn at home about life?

And if our parents are our teachers, who taught them? Their parents. Isn't it necessary in a rapidly changing society and because of globalization to get some new information into the system? Like how to adapt to a rapidly changing lifestyle, if economically only, for instance?

I moved to the country recently. Mistake, perhaps. People here are five hundred years behind, and they hurt themselves and each other badly by trying to stick to rules TV stopped showing in the early sixties. Change boyfriends after 5 years with the same guy and you're a prostitute, stuff like that. Unbelievable.

Little wonder the western world is so fascinated with the Dalai Lama. The guy is laughing all the time. Just how does he do it, for Buddha's sake?

I think many peeople stop their "adult education" at fourteen and think that's it, because they've been told nothing else.

Here are a few problems we ought to be able to deal with:

• Forever changing jobs
• Finances (!)
• Loving others
• Accept love (harder 'n it sounds)
• Setting boundaries
• Taking the higher ground
• Not being pulled into others' drama
• Resentments (your own)
• Hostility
• and of course political insecurities and threats

The list is longer, but this is a good beginning. Anyone taught you much of that?

As for me, I've stumbled for a long time, but I think I have some answers now. Many of them look suspiciously like the commentary to the 10 commandments, but that doesn't mean they don't work.

That's why I decided to write about these things. Too many people out there are still getting hurt, and hurt others, because they don't understand what the problem is. What I know may be, who knows, a little bit of help. At least I hope so.