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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
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?

“I still want to go back in time and be an awkward, sappy teen holding hands with a boy during a rom-com, or have him hold my shirt sleeve during a scary movie. I still want to go back in time and attend a college formal with a dude. I still want to go back in time and attend my friends’ weddings with someone I care about. I missed too many milestones along the way, too many rites of passage, and while I really don’t have many regrets, that stuff continues to eat away at me at times. But coming out was the greatest thing I could have ever done.