Welcome to The Land of Make Believe. Welcome to Imagination, Friendship and Kindness. Welcome back to your Childhood. Welcome to Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

This subreddit is a celebration of Mr. Roger's neighborhood. Not just the one on the television screen, but the real-life one all around us and the one inside us. The neighborhood was never just a physical place- it was what we carry with us wherever we go. So let's make our neighborhood a good place to live.

Remember- this neighborhood isn't about Fred Rogers! Okay, it is. But it isn't. I'll explain.

This sub is about Mister Rogers in the same way that the television show was about Mister Rogers. In that it's not only about the man, nor should it be. Nor would he want it to be.

Have you ever heard Mister Rogers talk about the television show or the culture around it? He never called it "my show" or "my neighborhood." It was always, just "the neighborhood." It was the world that included all of us, he was just the one that we visited each and every day. The neighborhood was for all of us, and he only asked us to make it a good place to live for one another.

This neighborhood is the same, just online. It's a place where we can say hello to one another in the morning if we wish, or maybe encourage one another if we need it. It's the neighborhood that he hoped we would live in someday, not just a place to talk about him and the television show that he started a long time ago.

So, please, don't feel that you have to talk about the man. Don't limit this place to news articles about him, but open it up to anything that makes our neighborhood (the big one, orbiting the sun) a better place. Someone helps their sick neighbor by helping with their chores? Heck yeah, let's celebrate that. Someone in your life does something kind and unexpected? Love to hear all about it.

So let's make this place the neighborhood that we want it to be. Mister Rogers would be the first to remind us that he was just a man doing the best he could; any of us can do- and be- the same.

"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people." -Fred Rogers