I remember when I walked into my kindergarten class and saw this sign on the wall in red and yellow letters: DO UNTO OTHERS, AS YOU WOULD WANT THEM TO DO UNTO YOU. I didn't know that such few words had such an enormous meaning. After finding out what it meant, I knew this saying would have a big effect on me for the rest of my life.
Everyday after saying the pledge of allegiance, the class would look over the blackboard and say The Golden Rule out loud. I really never knew what it meant; it seemed like everyone else knew what it meant but me. I was going to ask the question to someone to see if they knew what it meant.
Later on during that particular day when the classes went outside, I asked this girl if she understood what the rule meant. She told me that it means think about what you are doing to someone before you do it and if you think it's wrong don't do it if you don't want it done to you. I sat down at the top of the sliding board and thought about it. I said to myself, this girl is the same age as me, so she doesn't know what she was talking about. I thought the best idea was to ask the teacher if she could tell me what it meant.
After my classmates and I went into the room to cool off, it was almost reading time. During that time we all would sit down on the red carpet and listen to the teacher read to us as we fell to asleep. So before she read to us that day, I asked Mrs. Dukes, the teacher, if she could tell me more in detail what that saying meant. She replied, "I thought that no one would ever ask me that question." She told same thing that the girl on the playground had told me earlier. In a way, I felt kind of stupid, but then again I felt better just hearing it from an adult. That afternoon I went home and told my mother what I had learned in class that day. She told me that would be something that I would remember the rest of my life. I looked at her like, yeah right.
