shared thoughts (words that I could have written myself) Letter to a boy who believes a failed
Knowing others
is perhaps easier
to know yourself.
At a young reader who has little confidence in himself and that would be more rewarding in so many ways to address the following letter.
Dear friend, you live in a misunderstanding, as many of your peers and even many adults. You think you have something less than the company, while you get much more.
You're a good boy, you have a family that loves you and you love, who understands you and around you. Failed
not you. Failures are the guys around you, that you would like the friendship and confidence. Let them stew in their own broth. A flavorful soup that can also be at twenty, but with maturity becomes indigestible. Can not you see, you do not realize that they are disbanded without values, without moral and spiritual anchors, without milestones, without models, without a future, with nothing?
If you do not understand, their future will be bleak or bland. They live in the flock for they know not to be alone. And being alone because they do not know, neither in nor twenty to eighty, it is easy to be alone. To be alone you have to have something inside. But your peers, as you describe them (I know them a little), they have nothing inside. Or just that vacuum prevents them from being what would be, but if not will never be an examination of conscience, if you do not think, not feel, do not think like you.
knew how much I feel sorry for them, as they are without a goal, unable to make themselves useful to others and themselves. Support each other because, without external props, they feel lost. They are misfits who, if they find the right way, will also be desperate. Do not you envy them, much less imitate. You just have to pity them.
not you that you need them. It is they who have, or will one day need you.
You learn to be yourself, more and more yourself. Do what you feel is a just judge to do. Always be yourself and be proud to be different, to have your own personality, which means your ideas, your opinions, your feelings, your interests, your tastes.
Bullies do bullies. You make the man. Today, a small man, tomorrow, if you follow these tips and examples where high inspires you, great. That does not mean rich, powerful, famous, feared. No: it means satisfied with yourself, of your achievements that you hope will not be easy conquests. Fight, fight always not be equal to none.
Read more than others, studied more than others, you do everything better than others. If many of your peers, skidding as comrades, now you snub, and seek out other (there are), and accompanied them. Learn to be self-sufficient, not dependent on anyone, to forge your character on the wheel that are rough and formidable adversity.
hope to meet a lot of satisfaction because no greater destiny in store for us than that which comes from victory over bad luck. The more it rages against us, as we We curb, the more we fight. Tempering the spirit of the classics the great philosophers of the past, from Plato to Seneca, from Pascal to Montaigne, from Voltaire to Unamuno. Listen, not just in times of loneliness and despair, great music - from Bach to Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms and Wagner. Never miss time, do you capitalize on the mistakes and always Have confidence in yourself. The rest, believe me, it does not matter. Counts for nothing.
