Life Rules

Editor’s note:
This is a collection of 11 life rules learned during Martina, Kimia, Jacobus and Tom’s road trip to the 2024 Venice Biennale.

This is written on page 1 in one of my notebooks. It is a notebook I carry everywhere and we wrote these rules during our trip to the Venice Biennale in August 2024.

Rules we learned:

1: The more you take, the less you have.

2: Do not take anything personally

3: There are no good or bad news. Only news. Except when it’s very bad. 

4: Inner peace

5: Teamwork

6: Patience is key

7: The present is a gift, that’s why they call it a present.

Until now, all of the rules that we have learned were inspired by Master Oogway from Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. But only the first one.

Afterwards, talking to dear Dennis we have come up with a couple more rules that are equally as important as the ones previously mentioned.

8: Your body is your temple.

9: Take care of yourself

10: Don’t bring people down with you.

11: Yolo.

These are the rules that we have learned.