Friday, June 19, 2009

Stuff happens be prepared


Stuff Happens: Be Prepared


As children, if we learned nothing else from those "scary" nursery rhymes, it should have been that "stuff" happens! Scary? Yes, Scary! Jack fell down and broke his crown... Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall (worse yet, they couldn't put him back together again!)... The wind blew and down came cradle, baby and all... little Miss Muffet had her meal interrupted by a spider... and two little Piggies got there houses blown down. Is that scary enough for you?

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As children, if we learned nothing else from those "scary" nursery rhymes, it should have been that "stuff" happens! Scary? Yes, Scary! Jack fell down and broke his crown... Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall (worse yet, they couldn't put him back together again!)... The wind blew and down came cradle, baby and all... little Miss Muffet had her meal interrupted by a spider... and two little Piggies got there houses blown down. Is that scary enough for you?

What's with these nursery rhymes? Were our parents trying to raise a generation of Stephen Kings? I never gave it a second thought as a child, but now that I reflect on it, we grew up on nursery rhymes filled with mishaps that should horrify any little child. I don't think it was the intention of our parents, or the creators of these nursery rhymes, to actual scare children. But, it is odd, don't you think.

So, maybe there was a secret message in these mishap filled nursery rhymes. Were they preparing us for real life? In real life, st

 



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