How Do You Do That?

So every week my one student comes to class with a list of questions for me. And we go through the questions, one at a time, until A) I either answer it and show him what he is looking for; or B) I tell him "That' s a new one! I will have to look into that and get back to you!" The people he works with think I have the answers to everything! I do not. I have very few answers...really, more questions than answers....

Every day someone in my world asks me some kind of random technology question. I have grown accustomed to it and I expect it. I like it. I like that I am helpful to people. I do not like that lately I have been impatient and annoyed. I am bothered that I can let outside influences affect me in such a way that I, in turn, pass some kind of negative energy on to the next guy.

So I am stating here and now that I will try to be a more positive, helpful person to those that are clueless. I will try to be more patient and kind. I will try...that's all I can do.

Maybe it is getting me used to working with 5 year olds, because lately, that's the way I am seeing adults. There are a lot of 5 year olds running around my building... Remember Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten? Well it is true. Here you go just in case you forget:

• Share everything. (some adults really have not learned this... and some share WAY too much!!)
  
• Play fair. (All is fair in love and war)
  
• Don't hit people. (Especially when they are down..)
  
• Put things back where you found them. (Simple)
  
• Clean up your own mess. (Sometimes messes are big.. and involve other people)
  
• Don't take things that aren't yours. (This is called stealing...especially if you are not going to share...)
  
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. (Even if you don't mean to hurt them..)
  
• Wash your hands before you eat.
  
• Flush. (Kind of goes with cleaning up after yourself)
  
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. (All things in moderation...warm bread and cold beer works, too.)
  
• Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance

and play and work every day some. ( In that order, preferably)

• Take a nap every afternoon. (Even if it's with your eyes open)
  
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together. (You need someone to hold hands with, first....that's important.)
  
• 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. (Slow down and enjoy your life...)
  
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
• For more inspiration, visit www.robertfulghum.com