Things to Worry About
A letter from author F. Scott Fitzgerald to his 11-year-old daughter at camp, in which he threatens to beat her cat (“Do you react to that?”) or call her Egg if she ever calls him Pappy again.
More endearing is his list of things to worry about, and those things which she should not worry about.
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