All we really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be we learned when we were young.
Think what a better world this would be if we:
- Share everything
- Play fair
- Don’t hit people
- Put things back where you found them
- Clean up your own mess
- Don’t take things that aren’t yours
- Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody
- Wash your hands before you eat
- Flush
- Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you
- Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some
- Take a nap in the afternoon
- When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together
- Be aware of wonder
- Things die; So do we
These words convert into “adult-like” references and they apply to our lives today – family, personal relationships, community, business, etc. Everything we need to know is in there somewhere: The Golden Rule, love, basic sanitation, ecology, politics, equality and sane living.
We already know most of what’s necessary to live a meaningful life – it isn’t that complicated. The challenge is living it.
Special thanks to Robert Fulghum, author of “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” for keeping life in perspective.
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