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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0168Letter to a Troubled Youngster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">you come from a family that –<br>well, I’ve known better and, <br>I’ve certainly known worse..<br>but all you want right now<br>is to get right away from them, <br>live your own life, make<br>your own mistakes.. and<br>half of you is looking forward to<br>doing just that, and<br>half of you’s not sure..<br>OK so far? I’m trying to be fair…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">now here are some sketches of<br>what life may hold: </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">there’s the random, no-plan plan –<br>life happens; no plan, no control; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or there’s the existentialist view: <br>I make my own life, I’m in control, <br>and then I live it; that’s it, <br>I’m strong.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or there’s the Indian view: <br>that in some timeless way<br>which may be, how you played it<br>in a previous life; or right now, as outside time; <br>you’ve set yourself this scenario which<br>you’ve got another chance, now, <br>to improve, resolve, in order to..<br>live fully? be your own real self? <br>be happy? help the world? ..<br>fill this one in yourself</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or there’s the view that God, <br>the gods, the Fates (fill this one in, too<br>or leave it blank for later) , anyway<br>Someone Up There or<br>Someone In Here<br>has – as the Stoics believed –<br>set your life as a series of<br>lessons to be learned. The right answers<br>that you may or may not have got right<br>may or may not be at the back of the book<br>but with a bit of luck, you’ll have a pretty clear idea<br>with this in mind, of how it’s going</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But whichever, the great thing is –<br>treat all the hurdles as<br>challenges to overcome; even, <br>if you’re that strong, look forward every day<br>to what may happen; and when it does, <br>be glad, whether it seems ‘good’ or ‘bad’, <br>give it your full and glad acceptance, ’cos<br>that’s how it’s going to be, anyways..and<br>you may learn more that way</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and have a lot of fun in the sense<br>of freedom, that this view will, shall, bring</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and sorry if all this is trite.. it’s the best that<br>I can do; have sometimes done; <br>and no, I haven’t always followed<br>my own advice..</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">so enjoy, and good luck.. for, who knows, <br>it may not be just luck</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>