Living, Loving & Learning
By: Leo Buscaglia, Ph. D

(I, again, quote to you from the above book)

“Many of you know that I grew up in a wonderful, great big, fantastic, loving Italian family….
In this family I learned a lot of things….
One important thing my family taught me, without trying, is….
…how to share.
We had a tiny house and a big family and boy, do you learn to share!
Now we have enormous houses; everybody could get lost.
Then we had lots of people and….one toilet.
Oh, do I remember!
That was the center of the house.
Everybody was in and out of the toilet all the time and the minute you’d get in there and sit down and relax for 30 seconds,
“Get out of there, it’s my turn.”
So you learned to give and you learned to share, you learned to get out and you learned to speed up and you learned to use the same sink and sleep in the same rooms.
It’s a wonderful thing to learn.
I’m convinced that the family that goes to the toilet together, stays together.
But now we have a toilet for Mary and a toilet for Sally and a toilet for Papa and a dressing room for Mama.
That’s too bad - we don’t need all that space.
It’s so funny, but we build enormous houses and we work our fingers to the bone and we say it’s for our children.
But if you think about it, we bring them into these beautiful houses with lovely furniture and we don’t let them live in them.
“Don’t touch this!”
“Don’t touch that!”
“You’re going to break that.”
For goodness sakes, who’s the house for, the neighbors?
Not in our house!
The house was there for us to live in….
As a result…..I learned to share….whether I liked it or not!
My family life….taught me that…..daily!”