go back to the basics

count a few more sleeps and election takes place in this part of the world i call home for now. i wonder if the wannabes recall what they read from robert fulghum’s writings once upon a time..

sometimes, it's not having a bright mind that makes the world a better place to live in. sometimes, it's just innocence.

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

These are the things I learned: Share everything. Playfair. 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 andit 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 andthen 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 ownmess.
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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why don't we ever learn.. when all else fail, go back to the basics.

as life goes on..