Rule No.136 - Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it, keep cool but care.

So I knew this girl, and for a very long time, she had to love with her mouth shut, but not in the way this rule is saying, I don’t think. She had to love with her mouth shut because she had to love from afar. She wasn’t allowed to openly love him because he was never hers to love.

That’s what I thought of immediately when I read this rule. But thinking about it more carefully, maybe what it’s trying to say is that you don’t need to blurt out to the world your undying love for someone. I think it’s more about showing your love. Like making a beautiful meal or planning a picnic, or doing something fun like go carting, surfing or fishing.

With social media today its easy to love out loud, but what you feel for that other person actually has nothing to do with us. It’s between you two and its incredibly special. You are so lucky that you have someone that you can love and loves you back. Remember, actions speak louder than words, so show your love instead.

Helping without breaking your ass or publicizing it is another tricky one. Firstly, if you doing it for the right reasons you wont be breaking your ass, because its what you meant to be doing. Secondly, even though it’s so awesome to do something good for someone and then tell people about it and get some serious high fives, how amazing would it be if you did something great and then didn’t expect something in return for it. It’s like your little secret and can make your heart explode with excitement, never mind the good you did for that other person or animal or cause or whatever really.

Now all you have to do is go out there and care, but keep cool while doing it. Easy Peasy.

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