Father’s Day | F. Scott Fitzgerald’s letter to his daughter:‘Things to Worry About’, 1933

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<  F. Scott Fitzgerald and daughter, Frances “Scottie” Fitzgerald, 1924
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Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Worry about…
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
FitzgeraldDon’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?

With dearest love,
Daddy

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Letter to Daughter Scottie: Things to Worry About, 1933
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Jean-Paul Belmondo with his daugther                Dustin Hoffman with his daughter Karina, 1969

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Django Reinhardt and Babik, 1950

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* Jack Nicholson plays with his daughter, Jennifer, on the deck of his home overlooking Franklin Canyon, Los Angeles, 1969
** Orson Welles with his daughter, Christopher

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** Ernest Hemingway with sons Patrick and Gregory and some of the many cats he bred in Cuba

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Frank and Nancy Sinatra                  Humphrey Bogart with his daughter Leslie, 1955

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