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Growing old
Rating: PG-13
Quality: (Quality: Unrated)
Condensed from Kansas City Times - Robert Fulghum
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.
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. Live a balanced life. Learn some and
think some, and draw 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 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 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
in 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 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
always to 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.
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