Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday. - Mary Schmich, 1997.
As Class of 1997, I commemorate the 4pm on this idle Tuesday, with this excellent piece by Mary Schmich, a Chicago Tribune Columnist: "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-970601sunscreen,0,4664776.column Folks might know it as Baz Luhrmann's 1999 hit single, "Wear Sunscreen".
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http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~songhurs/every.htm I still don't know what to do with my life. And yes, our choices are half chance.