Pick Your Teeter~Totter Buddies Carefully!

They say that everything you need to know about Life you learned in Kindergarten. I never went to Kindergarten but the thing I learned in the first grade that sticks in my head is this; Never have a friend who will get off the Teeter-Totter while you are still at the top.


We all have them. Friends who’ll jump and bail and leave you to hit the ground hard. Just because they can. Or they are to scared to stay on the Teeter-Totter with you. Or they found another friend to play with. Or it could simply be a small bright shiny object that distracted them and they forgot you were sitting up there waiting for them to push off and send you to the ground slowly.

I hate the Teeter-Totter. Every day at recess I’d get talked into getting on the damn thing. Thinking and knowing that sooner or later one of you would have to get off first. It was never me. I never jumped off first. I still don’t know why. And I’m still like that. Recess after recess I’d be dusting off my dress and picking splinters out of my ass from hitting the ground and sliding off the end of the wooden totter.

It’s about being there for the people you love. When you get on the Teeter-Totter you should only do it if you plan on being present for the ride and conscious and graceful about your exit.

After you hit the ground so many times hopefully start picking your Teeter-Totter friends more carefully. In the past year I have started to do that. Or actually God did it for me. When I had my no more Teeter-Totter Jumping Friends Epiphany I was inundated with good friends who had been there all along. I just couldn’t see them because the ‘Jumpers’ were standing at the beginning of the line blocking my view.

The other thing I learned in First Grade was don’t eat the glue.

Lesson for the day. Choose your Teeter-Totter buddies more carefully. :0)