[F. Scott Fitzgerald to His 11-Year-Old Daughter]
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 intrument or am I neglecting it?
Ricorda che non esistono solo le tue parole.
Beautiful as always,
enjoy your day!
Don’t mind these people grinning in your face,
no matter how you live..
they’re gonna talk about you still,
so don’t mind people grinning in your face.
Tu ed io abbiamo un talento speciale e l’ho capito immediatamente.
Quelli come noi si chiamano “supplenti”.
Io sono stata una supplente per tutta la vita.
Non sono un’Ellen,
non ho mai voluto essere un’Ellen e no,
non sono neanche una Cindy,
sebbene i Chuck mi amino…
Il fatto è che stare da sola mi piace troppo,
se pensi che sto con uno che è sposato alla sua carriera accademica…
è raro che ci vediamo e quindi io sono una supplente.
Mi piace in questo modo,
c’è molta meno pressione.
Elizabethtown
