Simplicity and Kindness

I know I have been absent from the blog world recently but it is HIGH time for a post. Lately I have found myself surrounded by lots of negativity and just down-right hatefulness. Everytime I feel that wave of hate or negativity I find myself wondering where people lost the lessons we learned as children. So, instead of having a negative post about not being negative, I thought I'd share with you all an excerpt from one of Robert Fulghum's books All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten.

**Side Note: If you've never read anything from Robert Fulghum YOU SHOULD! He's an incredible author that writes about living life and he really does have some of the wisest advice I've ever come across. Check out his website here.**

"All I 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 school.

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own messes.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say your sorry when you hurt someone.
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 in 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 our 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 blankets for a nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to put things 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 still best to hold hands and stick together."


So maybe we should all take a step back and think about how we treat each other everyday. I'm sure we all could do a little better and the whole world would be a happier place =)

Happy Wednesday!