A very good friend of mine posted a link to this letter on facebook written by American writer, John Steinbeck to his son back in 1958. Such a beautiful tender letter about love and life.
Read the whole letter here but some of my favourite bits:
Read the whole letter here but some of my favourite bits:
- First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
- Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it. The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
- If you love someone — there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.
- Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
- It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
- And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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