"Things to worry about": A list from F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter, Scottie (1933)

[Lists of Note]

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 instrument or am I neglecting it?  

With dearest love,
Daddy