{"id":4794,"date":"2012-01-19T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T06:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2012-01-20T00:37:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T07:37:30","slug":"things-to-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/19\/things-to-worry-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to worry about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.listsofnote.com\/2012\/01\/things-to-worry-about.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0listsofnote<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7025\/6724818093_e7a83636fd_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1933, renowned author\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._Scott_Fitzgerald\">F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/a>\u00a0ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frances_Scott_Fitzgerald\">Scottie<\/a>, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0684801531\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=letofnot-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0684801531\">F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters<\/a>; Image: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his daughter, Scottie, in 1924.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Things to worry about:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Worry about courage<br \/>\nWorry about cleanliness<br \/>\nWorry about efficiency<br \/>\nWorry about horsemanship<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things not to worry about:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry about popular opinion<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about dolls<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about the past<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about the future<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about growing up<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about anybody getting ahead of you<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about triumph<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about mosquitoes<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about flies<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about insects in general<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about parents<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about boys<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about disappointments<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about pleasures<br \/>\nDon\u2019t worry about satisfactions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things to think about:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What am I really aiming at?<br \/>\nHow good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:<\/p>\n<p>(a) Scholarship<br \/>\n(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?<br \/>\n(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?<\/p>\n<p>With dearest love,<\/p>\n<p>Daddy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bonus: For all those who think the Internet Blackout had no impact?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-jaJ90959jH0\/TxiZqbRLKWI\/AAAAAAAACVQ\/b0GfARZPXK8\/s576\/SOPA%2BPIPA%2Bsupporters%252C%2Bthe%2Bday%2Bafter.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by\u00a0listsofnote In 1933, renowned author\u00a0F. Scott Fitzgerald\u00a0ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter,\u00a0Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows. (Source:\u00a0F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters; Image: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his daughter, Scottie, in 1924.) Things to worry about: Worry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}