Getting To Know You----Getting To Know All About You

It's a very ancient saying, but a true and honest thought, that if you become a teacher, by your pupils you will be taught. As a teacher I've been learning---you'll forgive me if I boast, and I've now become an expert, on the subject I know most---getting to know you. ( Oscar Hammerstein "The King and I").

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Ancient maybe but true, I do need to get to know you. I believe the most often asked questions in America today are, what is going wrong with our country, and how do we fix it? Why does it seem we are spiraling out of control and don't know how to reverse this path that we are on. I believe the answer to these questions can be summed up this way, we need to get to know one another better.

In simpler times most parents always knew where there children were at all times, day and night. Most children could be found at a playground or discovering life at a friends house. This is where the problem begins. In America for the last 30 years some parents seem to feel that it is not important to spend enough time with not only their children, but the children of others they know. We need to open our houses up, invite our neighbors over, and hopefully get an invitation to visit their home. We spend too much time looking down, to outer space and dead space, when what we really need is to go next door and get to know our neighbors inner space. Getting to know them, getting to know all about them. Maybe if we begin to look in someones eyes again we may be able to bring joy to their lives with just a smile.

We need to stop using the same excuses that we have been using for way too long. I don't want to get involved, or, I don't want to get in the middle of that, is a song that needs to be rewritten. If we don't get involved or get in the middle, we wouldn't know if there was abuse, weapons of mass destruction being created, or any other sign of destructive behavior taking place within someone's home.This is not meddling, this is life. This is a way of stopping things before they get worse or out of control, before bad things have just gone too far.We must help our neighbors solve their problems with weapons of love, understanding, and compassion.

It is time in America that we stop pointing fingers, giving fingers, and begin to realize that by showing someone you care, that they can become that beacon of hope and charity that is needed to the rest of the world. We need to become the example of a nation that knows how to solve it's biggest problem, what our purpose is, and how do we really become human and begin to think for ourselves.

To know, know, know you, is to love, love, love you. Just to see you smile, makes my life worth while. Getting to know you, getting to know all about you, is where it's at. You can't get something out of nothing without a spark, so put your help where your hope is. We must stop hiding our hearts, and begin to put them where they belong.

I believe our sole purpose in life is to take all the things that give life meaning and make them better.
Maybe if we start it now, we can learn to get it right.

Try it, you may like it. Start today, tomorrow may be too late.
Getting to know you is love worth finding.