All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned at The Leadership School and sometimes I wonder what the whole world would be like, if every person in earth wore a name tag, and picked up two pieces of trash after meals. What if lights out was at 10pm and wake up at 7, and if everybody showered on a regular basis for under 3 minutes a day...If bridges were built with tinker toys, and we all had solo time...
What if every child had a harness, a rope, and a belay team
strapped to them before going out in the world and we all played
hard, played safe, and played fair...What if the lottery announced
each night on T.V. represented a clean-up number and everyone
in the whole world received 3 meals and 3 snacks a day. If
every morning the townspeople came out to play speed rabbit at
community meeting and every afternoon after work or school the
whole world had rec time...
What if the major leaders of the
world could get together for an afternoon of trust falls and
I messages and every Thursday night we all had a dance, if every
night at family meeting we shared our high points of the day,
and each city rotated around chores to, to clean up the world...What
if we all had time to go back to our homes and put on a second
layer, and juggling life was as easy and fun as juggling soft
kushy objects...
What would life be like if everyone was treated with kindness
and respect, if hugs were unconditional, and we all walked our
talk. If the good stuff stayed inside our beings and the bad stuff stayed outside, and if the end of every year, everyone gave each other a put up. What if we could take a class on relationships. And for one hour a week we could all see the complexity of our lives performed before us in our own image on a stage in a great hall. And what if at the end of it all, the whole world could play a great big game, receive graduation certificates, and exit to the sound of applause........
(Adapted by Jess Slavin) |
