If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. Katharine Hepburn.
This quote to me means, that rules are meant to be broken. I am not sure that I have really lived by this. I guess that I would say I am not necessarily a rule breaker but I also do not let rules stand in my way. I like to enjoy life as a journey and not a conquest. This means that I will go with the flow and not try to live too confined in a box. I am a true believer of do now, and beg forgiveness later. I live by this because I would feel too guilty to do something if I had asked and was told no. I figure that my conscious is clear if I just do not know any better and can just beg for the forgiveness after the fact.
A rule that I have broken is going to bars when I was 19 drinking with some of my friends that were of age. I was responsible though to have a designated driver and I would know my limit. I never really was rebellious when I was younger I think I became more rebellious after I had moved out of the house. Freedom to do my own thing finally set in when I had moved out of my house and livid about an hour from my parents. Being in a different town then my immediate family gave me that freedom to be me and not feel like I was being watched.
Both my parents are teachers so, growing up I always felt if I did anything wrong someone would let them know, most of the time this was true. They always seemed to find out anything I did. I feel as I have gotten older that I have realized that life is meant to be livid. This to me means taking risks and enjoying life. I enjoy life by not staying inside the lines and not conforming to what everyone may want me to be, but by being true to myself. I think you have to be flexible in life and to be able to this, at times you may have to break the rules.
I think part of coming into one’s own is experiencing many situations, meeting different people and once again taking risks. Breaking the rules to me can also mean breaking the rules that one may have made for them-selves. To have a little fun you have to step out of the normal shell you have created for yourself, breaking your current mold and recreating a new one. So I would tell anyone to go ahead break a few rules and see how fun it could be. I would caution though, that breaking the law however might be fun at the time but could give you more trouble then fun.
