{"id":6383,"date":"2012-03-26T01:16:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2012-03-26T01:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:16:09","slug":"things-to-worry-about-worry-about-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=6383","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Things to worry about: <\/p>\n<p>Worry about courage<br \/>\nWorry about Cleanliness<br \/>\nWorry about efficiency<br \/>\nWorry about horsemanship<br \/>\nWorry about\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Things not to worry about: <\/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>Things to think about: <\/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<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>In a 1933\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/03\/things-to-worry-about.html\">letter<\/a> to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, <strong>F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong> produced this poignant and wise\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/03\/things-to-worry-about.html\">list of things to worry, not worry, and think about<\/a> \u2013 the best father\u2019s advice since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/12\/john-steinbeck-on-love-1958\/\">John Steinbeck\u2019s letter to his son on falling in love<\/a>\u00a0and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/02\/jackson-pollock-father-letter\/\">beautiful letter to 16-year-old Jackson Pollock by his dad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0684801531\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=exp-lore-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=0684801531&amp;adid=09QR0XT9EHKSH2VP7AX2&amp;\">F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whimsically.me\/\">chimeless<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things to worry about: Worry about courage Worry about Cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Worry about\u2026 Things not to worry about: Don\u2019t worry about popular opinion Don\u2019t worry about dolls Don\u2019t worry about the past Don\u2019t worry about the future Don\u2019t worry about growing up Don\u2019t worry about anybody getting ahead of you <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=6383\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}