Some things stay with you

This little book did not really look very promising when I first came across it, much longer ago than I'd care to let on.

But Robert Fulghum touches so many nerves. It's like sitting in a talk and thinking that the speaker has you personally in mind. A bit like 'Killing me softly with his song'. (If you don't know it, check it out. You wonlt be sorry.)

Some things stay with you, and Robert Fulghum eventually gets around to what he learned in Kindergarten. I guess our politicians never went to Kindergarten. Shame. See if you like it as much as I do.

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 drink some and draw some and paint some 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 Stryrofoam 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

Because I have Aspergers something compels me to tell you that Styrofoam is polystyrene, even though you probably know that already. Sorry.