Stick to the basics

At the hospital the other day, we had lunch at the cafeteria and I saw this again.



I remember the first time I saw it about six years ago or more, I think. I looked it up right away. I think sometimes we forget the BASICS in life. We overanalyze things and forget the things that we learned when we were kids. Sometimes life isn't too hard to navigate as long as we stick to the BASICS.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum

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 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.