All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Then Had to Unlearn in a Pandemic
Hi everyone! It’s me, your favorite ordained Unitarian Minister, Robert Fulghum. It’s been thirty-five years since I first shared my credo for how to live your most meaningful life and that advice — to apply the simple lessons you learned in kindergarten to your adult lives — has stood the test of time. Until the pandemic.
Suddenly, my quaint suggestions that you share, play fair, and hold hands when you go out into the world seem downright dangerous. Also, if I want to keep my book sales going, I’d better make sure my message resonates with the millions of people who will have spent their kindergarten years behind a screen while wearing a mask and slathered in hand sanitizer gel.
So here is my updated credo. Forget what I said in my last book. It will literally kill you in the event of another pandemic.
Don’t share anything! Not your fries or your pen or inside info on when the next shipment of Clorox wipes will arrive at Target.
Playing fair is for losers. Wait in line for your turn to get the vaccine? I don’t think so. Start working those Facebook groups and get yours TODAY.
Don’t hit people. You never learned this lesson in kindergarten because you never got close enough to your classmates to…
