Life Manuals of The Living and Dead Are Available For Free Everywhere

They say, ‘life doesn’t come with a manual.’

They lied.

Every human on the planet creates their own manual by how they live. The life decisions that they make, along with their choice, actions, intentions, and how they treat others, become their manual.

“Why watch before you play?” Betty-Ann asked five-year-old Anelka Ingram as she sat in the playground watching the children and what they were doing. “You sit here every day, watch what others do, then join a boring group minutes before the bell rings.”

Anelka smiled, shrugged her shoulders, then said, “Boring to you, safe to me.”

“You aren’t supposed to be here,” Mrs. Simpson said to ten-year-old Anelka as she watched the high school seniors play, communicate, and interact with each other after watching them from the outside and then following them into their cafeteria. “This is the fifth time I’ve seen you here.”

“I will be here soon,” she explained. “I just wanted to see what it’s like.”

Mrs. Simpson smiled at her, then suggested, “Why don’t you go to the community center and help?”

“Really?” her joy asked.

“I know your mom. I will ask her.”

Anelka’s eyes popped, loaded with happiness.

After graduating from college with a PhD in Nursing, Anelka worked with children three days a week and with the elderly two days a week.

On the job, several coworkers asked while enjoying lunch in the hospital cafeteria, “You are here 36 hours per day, but never speak unless you have to. Are we that bad?”

Anelka smiled, then soothed, “I wouldn’t come back if you were.”

“Then what’s going on with all of that silence?”

“I am reading life manuals,” she informed.

Silence roared as others nearby turned to stare at her in deep thought.

She added, “Life hurts no matter how we live. I need to find out how to live my Life with pain I can control. Your Life is my manual. Everyone’s Life is my manual.”

“So while working here, you are studying everyone?” someone questioned.

“No,” she said, smiling. “I am reading your Life by how you do your job. I do this everywhere I go.”

“You read people by how they do their job?” someone else asked as her words began to pull people towards her.

“And how they live too. Most of us have been here more than five years. The salary is great, so are the benefits and environment. With Life and death here daily, most of you still give your best. We have witnessed the consequences of the one who didn’t. This goes on everywhere in our world. Reading their life manuals, I know what will happen if I do what they do,” she slam dunked as eyes popped around her and more people eased closer.

“Damn girl,” another female said. “You got this. I like it too.”

Glancing at the huge circular clock over the entrance, Ankela had another ten minutes to educate them. She added, “When we buy anything, it comes with a manual. We follow it. Many believe Life doesn’t come with one. It does. It’s here in every Life; even the ones who are dead leave their life manuals behind. And the best part is, it’s free. No one has to pay a dime for anyone’s life manual. Every human leaves a life manual for their generation. You write your life manual through how you live. Isn’t that amazing?”

Eyes glared at her from hearts, souls, and minds as understanding seeped into depths not even pain could reach.

“You mean my life manuals are out there and are being read by someone daily?” someone asked.

Giggling, Anelka said, “Yes, many will remember it too if kindness and cruelty are in it.”

“Damn, I gotta change my life,” several people said.

“Believe me, people, your Life and how you live it is a manual that unaware people read. Many humans are not aware enough to know that they are action-reading your life manuals through how you live and the things you do.”

“So if your life is a manual, being aware of how you live can be a guide for me,” a very young nurse asked.

With laughter, glancing up at the clock, Anelka stood up and shared, “That’s how I live. Reading your life manual prevents me from making certain mistakes. Bye, time is the master here. And I obey him.”

Yes, every human, in how they live, is writing their life manual. Annelise Lords

Life manuals are out there. Your generation has it. Your friends, foes, exes from past relationships, everyone with whom you communicate has it. Be aware of how you live, because you’re writing your life manual for the world to read.

You want more? Ask history! History stores and records the life manuals of those who add good and bad to our world.

Write a prompt about how you plan to write/live your life manual. Be honest. It’s not too late to change your Life if you aren’t happy about how you are living it. Your life manual will be out there. Someone is reading it every day.

Thank you for reading this piece. I hope you enjoyed it.