Things To Worry About
F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter with this list of simple life advice. Though it was written in 1933, I think the points hold up. And not just for daughters, but everyone… Yes, adults, too. (From Letters of Note, via newdadsstrut)
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions
Things to think about:
What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:
(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?
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YES. Gotta take note.
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electradaddy said:
I like F. Scott’s work but, Zelda was more interesting. Their life together was certainly high drama. I wonder, if blogs had existed back then, what he would have posted daily about her. And a blog by Zelda & Tallulah Bankhead. Oh. The possibilities.
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