Golden Rules

Perhaps this is a novel idea and perhaps it is not, but I do remember in Kindergarten being taught some golden rules. These included being nice to other people, sharing, waiting my turn, and cleaning up after myself. These were not hard to do and everyone else was doing it too. Kindergarten was a good place as I recall.

Somehow as we grow older, the rules slowly change and nobody really notices. Being nice to people no longer becomes important by high school for sure. Cleaning up after yourself - becomes "uh, is not that what we pay people"as for sharing -"hey, I worked hard to get my "stuff" why should YOU have any of it." Waiting - oh my goodness, heaven forbid you delay for a moment at a stop light, be slightly lost for those horns will come honking at you. Because that will definitely help - that horn blowing. Those of you in grocery lines with the frowns on your faces - hey, we're all waiting. That's just the way it goes.

You know, we're all in this together. We can be nice to each other, like we were in Kindergarten and maybe show our children a kinder, nicer world, or we can trod further down this cold road which is against every good thing we were taught in the very beginning.

Be nice.
Wait your turn.
Share and take your turn.
Clean up after yourself.

Oh and remember how it was a given we respected our elders, that would be rather nice too, but I'm not going to be unrealistic. Even I can't roll in that much catnip :P

Peace from the patch - belly up and feeling good.