I have come to realize that I already know most of what's necessary to live a meaningful life - that it isn't all that complicated. I know it. And have known it for a long, long time. Living it - well, that's another matter.
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 sandpit at 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 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
3 comments:
I wish we internalised these lessons. Of course, I didn't go to kindergarten, which makes it a little more challenging...:)
these are so true. . . if only as adults we kept to these fundamentals. But then again. . .its never to late to learn and practice.
err yeah Jenn :) didn't u know that high school and uni were actually a waste of time??
peanutbutter69: have u not heard the saying 'u can't teach old dogs new tricks'? Problem is that as adults we have taken the simple and complicated it beyond understanding. Back to the basics it is!
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