Say You're Sorry When You Hurt Somebody

I may not be the smartest individual but you would think an educated person such as myself would know when enough is enough. Yet I continue to associate with somone who proceeds make me feel as though I am inadiquate. Why? You may ask. Well there could be many answerer's to that question. You could start with such replies as; sucker for punishment, guilt, (don't tell anyone I have a conscience, it may ruin my image) and down right stupid. To tell the truth, yeah, I'm not sure at all. I do know that it must stop and stop soon because it is driving me absolutely batty. I understand that you may not know what I am talking about but being able get this monkey off my chest makes me feel much better.

They say everything you need to learn you learned in kindergarten...well apparently some people either need a refresher or they should have failed.

What ever happened to being nice to people. Don't get me wrong...I am as sarcastic as they come but in the end I am a nice person (some people would beg to differ). In my world (the sky is purple here) I am about a 6 out of 10 on the nice scale. But there are people in this world who really don't care who they hurt and don't think twice about it when they do it. I don't care who you are....WE all have feelings and we all bleed red.

I think this would be a better place if we all just tried to right one wrong we have committed.....I don't mean fixing a white lie like "Yes, that ruby red lipstick looks nice on you" When it clearly doesn't. I mean correct something that you have done to really hurt someone. Most of us below the 9 out of 10 on the nice scale have done something that we are not to proud of to somebody else, that's the kind of hurt I'm talking about.

See there I go getting all off topic.....

Recently,I had a person wrong me, once again, and they could not see that what they had done hurt me. This person made it all about themselves and the more I thought about it later the more i got pissed. I meant to do something about it earlier in the week but got side-tracked with some family issues, which are by far more important to me. Now that I have let this ebb and flow with in me, I have no desire to confront the individual and have them rectify the situation. It would just turn into a huge argument over nothing and somebody being the victim. I don't think I'll be going back this time. I don't need the stress anymore.

We all need to take the time to think before we speak, not only of the words we are about to choose but on who to say these words to or who might hear them and the damage they may cause.


Maybe some day I'll draw the big picture but for right now I just needed to vent.... FYI...I do that a lot.

Please enjoy the following.


All 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 sand pile at 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 in 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 one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.