Hi Everyone!

I was digging through my desk at work this week and came across something I had saved a few years back.  It was a little one page writing done by Robert Fulgrum.  As I read it again, after so many years and so many changes in my life, it had so much meaning to me now.  And it just made me feel so good.

Thought some of you might like to read it.

"Most of what I really needed to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten.  Wisdom was not a 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 find them.  Clean up your 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 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 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 up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all 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 you learned, the biggest 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 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.  Or if we had a basic policy for our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our 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."   ----    Robert Fulgrum

Hope some of you enjoyed reading this as much as I did.

Yours in Recovery,

David

 

((((((David)))))))),

Love it -- I now know why I am a slow learner (lol) -- my parents did not send me to kindergarten

Another document for my Al Anon folder :)

Maria

Dear David,

Loved it, Great!

Thank You, tea2

Hubby called me while I was reading this post, asked me "whatcha doin?" so I tell him I'm reading a post on "what I learned in kindergarten"....he replies, "well what I learned in kindergarten is that you're not supposed to look up the girls dresses...thats bad,bad...a no-no"  ROFL  Guess in this instance "LOOK" does not apply! LOL

Thanks dave, great post and memories and a giggle!

Kis

i read this to my senior kindergarten grads and parents every year.

i wish i could read it to all world leaders.......but hey, gotta start small :)

jo

((((David))))

That was a good.

I wish that we were all still in kindergarden.

It was so much easier... You didnt have to match and boys/girls had coties. LOL.

Much love-

Meg

David that was a cool reading! See you in Nov!!!!! Bubbles

Thanks for this post David. WONDERFUL!

I remember reading that a long time ago.  It's a wonderful homage to how the simple things in life are more important than the complications we adults make in our grown up lives. My son teaches me everyday about the most important things in life....a warm bed to sleep in, a mom to cuddle with, godzilla, snakes, alligators, and popcorn....all the important things to him. The simplest things in life that maintain our serenity without the complicated things that rule our lives.  Thank you for the reminder my friend, Love SenoraBob