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COSMOS EXPLAINS RUES ARE YOUR FRIENDS
Rules have been around for a long time and are designed to help us live our lives better and happier. In fact, if there were no rules, the world would be a very different and not so nice place. If you think about it, religious beliefs like the Ten Commandments or Jewish dietary beliefs are rules. All police laws are rules. All of these different types of rules are designed to make your life easier, not harder, because they are based on Good Thinking.
However, it seems to be natural for us to not want rules. We want to be able to do whatever we want to do, whenever we want to do it. The problem with that is that if everyone did what they wanted to do, when they wanted to do it, no one could do anything they wanted to do.
Now let me explain what I meant by that last statement. In something as simple as a baseball game, you have to have rules. Everyone likes to bat, playing the field is less fun and no one likes to sit on the bench. If there were no rules, everyone would be trying to bat at the same time, no one would be in the field catching the ball and no one would be willing to take turns. Obviously, without rules there could be no baseball games. The same is true in all of life.
All children naturally want to play and make noise. But to do well in the world, you have to have an education. To learn the lessons in school, you have to have a certain amount of quiet and you must put aside play for work. You must have rules to control your natural self so that your future self can be happy.
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