2. Setting out rules for waging war (Geneva Convention)
3. Spending years to study at university to to find at the end of it all that you are unemployed.
4. Working 9-5 everyday at something that gives you no pleasure at all just so that , after 30 years you can retire.
5. Retiring and discovering that you no longer have energy to enjoy life and dying few years later in sheer boredom.
6. Using botox.
7. Believing that power is much more important than money and money is much more important than happiness.
8. Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "Lacking Ambition".
9. Never talking to strangers.
10. Saying nasty things about neighbors.
11. Comparing objects like car, house, clothes and defining life according to those comparison instead of trying to find out real reason for being alive.
12. Believing that your parents are always right.
13. Getting married, having children and staying togather long after all love has died ,saying it is for good of children.
14. Criticizing anyone who tries to be different.
15. Waking up each morning to an hysterical alarm on bed side table.
16. Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.
17. Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck which serves no purpose but which answers to name of "Tie".
18. Never asking direct questions , even though other person can guess that what it is you want to know.
19. Keeping smile on our lips even when you are on verge of crying. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.
20. Believing that art is either worth of fortune or worth nothing at all.
21. Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved , it obviously is not worth having.
22. Following current fashion trend, however ridiculous or uncomfortable.
23. Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.
24. Investing a lot of time and money in caring bout external beauty and caring little about inner beauty.
25. Using every means possible to show that, although you are just ordinary human being, you area far above other mortals.
26. Never looking at anyone in eye when you are traveling on public transport, in case it is interpreted as a sign that you want to get rid off with them.
27. Standing facing the door in lift and pretending you are the only person in lift, regardless of how crowded it is.
28. Never laughing too loudly in restaurant however good the joke is.
29. Always dressing according to season, bare arms in spring and woolen jackets in autumn.
30. Covering christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with birth of Christ.
31. Assuming, as you grow older you are guardian of world's wisdom, even though you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and what's wrong.
32. Going to charity tea party and thinking you have done your bit toward putting an end to social inequality in the worlds.
33. Eating three times a day even though you are not hungry.
34. Believing that other people are always better than you - better looking, more capable richer, more intelligent - and that its very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so its best to do nothing.
35. Using you car as weapon and as impenetrable armour.
36. Swearing when in heavy traffic.
37. Believing that everything you child does wrong is entirely down to company he/she keeps.
38. Marrying the first person who offers you decent position in society. Love can wait.
39. Always saying "i tried" when you didn't try at all.
40. Postponing doing the really interesting things in life for later when you won't have energy for it.
41. Avoiding depression with large daily dose of television / computer.
42. Believing that you can be sure of everything you have achieved.
43. Assuming that women don't like football and men are not interested in home decoration and cooking.
44. Blaming government for all bad things that happen.
45. Thinking that being good, decent, respectable person will man that other will see you as weak , vulnerable and easy to manipulate.
46. Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having "Powerful personality".
47. Being afraid of having endoscopy (if you are man) and giving birth (if you are woman)
Paulo Coelho Roxxxx
