Rules

Our world is made up of a lot of rules. Many help us to be safe and maintain order ~ Stop at a red light. Don't litter. Say "excuse me" if you burp. The list is endless. Sometimes it seems like there are too many rules and it feels constricting. If there was only one rule, I think it would be the words on this sign. BE NICE OR LEAVE! I especially love that it ends with the polite "thank you"! It seems so civilized. My husband always says, "Why don't people just behave themselves?" He's right, that is all it would take to make the world run pretty smoothly. Trouble is, it just doesn't seem to be that easy for people to behave themselves. Quite possibly, we all have different definitions of what behaving ourselves entails. We tend to look at things the way we want to see them and not necessarily how others might see it. We humans can complicate just about anything!