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 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
some every day.
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 styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up and
nobody really knows 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.
Think what a better world it would be if we all -
the whole world had cookies and milk
at three o'clock in the afternoon and lay down
with our blankets for a nap....
Or if all the governments had a basic policy to
always put things back where they found them
and to clean up their own mess.
And it still holds 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
Robert Fulghum is the author of many great books, one bearing the same name as this poem.
I own all of his books and read them over and over. If you enjoyed this... and would like
to find more of his writings you can do
so by doing a search at any of the major online bookstores.
