Everything I Needed to Learn

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten


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 at nursery 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 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 how or 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 what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 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 to always 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. - Robert Fulghum -

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Most days I don't know what I'm learning anymore. It seems that life is all about getting through this and that, until I went back to school. It's ironic how some people go to school to go back to school but that's the difference between being a student and being a teacher.
Yet some people don't seem to have learnt their lesson well, like me, I am still learning. What should I be when I grow up?

Home-ly Feelings

It's strange how a whole different place can make you feel at home,

because I esteem home to be a very important part of my life.

Home is a place to belong, somewhere safe and sound.

Its definition is not limited by a matress and a blanket, or food and shelter.

It is not confined to the same people in the same living space.

You can have many physical homes and still not feel you have a home.
Home is a feeling of security, a sense of ease and some happiness.

Home on earth is only temporary but it's hard to understand that at first,
and still it can be hard to understand along life's journey,
but there is a home, a better home...

Try Your Best

Am I hearing things blow past my ears,
Or is He telling me to try my best?
It seems there is never enough time,
in the midst of all this busy-ness.

We push and we get pushed,
we pull our weights and weights are added on to our load.
Weary, worn out, why?...we may ask,
yet no one seems to notice as we walk alone on this road.



Try your best,
that is all anyone should ever ask for.
Only we know when we are trying,
and He knows too and asks for nothing more.

Hear That

While walking across the busy road on the way to uni with music playing in my ears, you really can't hear anything. The sound of cars, trucks, motorcycles, it all just blasts into your ears.
You can turn the music on even louder, but still you can't hear it.

When I get back home to my quiet little room, as I turn on the music again, it suddenly blasts into my ear.
Quite a spiralling effect eh?

If things outside get louder, we try to adapt and change.
If we keep up the constant spiralling upwards in volume, we eventually can't hear ourselves anymore.
That voice in my heart, is it there anymore I wonder?

If I can't seem to hear it, then I have to remind myself to take the intiative to go to a quieter place.
It's there, I know it.