Rules to Live By

Things are as things are I suppose.  Though that does not stop them or prevent them from being ultimately frustrating.  So frustrating in fact, that I is hard for me to thoroughly and accurately display my distaste for the current situation in text, and so I will not do so.  rather, I will simply talk about other more important, less frustrating matters.  Such as the changes that I will be making in the nearby future.  I have recently deleted my deviantArt account and my facebook accounts.  I will probably be moving to do the same with my gaiaonline in the near future, as well as a few other social networking sites. It is about time that I focus my life more on my work, and more on the future than what I've been doing so far.  This point has been made explicitly and frighteningly obvious by the intensity of my college summer courses.

What this really means is, at 20 years old, I'm done playing game, with myself and others.  From now on, life and the future takes precedence.  The internet will become a tool for my recourses such as researching, and keeping in contact with my friends through IM.  Also, as over the last few days, I've been receiving quite an impressive display on how much my friendship matters to some, I will be weeding out my friends lists on my IMs and breaking contacts I should have broken long ago. 

I've learned a lesson over tis last year, one that bit me hard, and I'm sure you all know how the saying goes, once bitten, twice shy?  Yeah, those are quite the eloquent and wise words.  I am starting over my life, with my friends, my family, and myself.  A form of rebirth, renewal. With this rebirth, a new code of conduct.  Rules for myself.  A new code, and it will be updated regularly. 

For now, I will start with rule one. 

1. I will never, from this day forward, unless it's a matter of life, or a matter of moral obligation give money, be it to friend, family, or acquaintance if it is not a gift or a matter of charity. I will never ask a friend, family, or acquaintance for money, nor accept unless it is a matter of charity of gift.  There will be no exceptions, there will be no charge of interest, because it will not happen.  All debts will be paid as appropriately required. 
• This rule has come into place due to the result of my and other's generosities being taken advantage of far too many times.  

This list will be updated with full explanations as time progresses.  It is my personal goal that each and every day, I will update this journal with a new rule that I will adhere by.  Bettering myself, and my relations.