From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@home.com)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 09:50:38 MST
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
All 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 sandpile at pre-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 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 out for traffic,
hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little
seed in the styrofoam 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 Styrofoam
cup-they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned-the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and
love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane
living. Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated
adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your
government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think
what a better world it would be if all-the whole world-had cookies and
milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our
blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always
put thing back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. 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
-- Walter Watts Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc. "To err is human. To really screw things up requires a bare-naked command line and a wildcard operator."
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