Gene.Zeak@p0.f117.n137.z1.fidonet.org (Gene Zeak) (08/21/90)
Index Number: 9907
I spied this on a bulliten board (the cork kind) and like it a bunch. Thought
I'd share it...
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ALL I EVER REALLY NEEDED TO KNOW, I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN...
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to
do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top
of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery
school.
These are the things I learned:
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 some and paint and sing
and dance and play every day.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world,
watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and
the plant goes us and nobody really knows how or why, but we all are
like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in
the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word
of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is there somewhere. The
Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and
sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole
world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and
then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic
policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where
we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no
matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to
hold hands and stick together!
* By Robert Fulghum, condensed from The Kansas City Times
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Later, Gene...
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