When I was a child, I recall my mother telling me that to live a successful life, you must do one thing every day that scares you. I remember not fully understanding this piece of advice's magnitude or real significance, yet it still resonated.
The phenomenal Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mary Schmich penned an article in The Chicago Tribune in November 1997 about friends with a little "f" and friends with a big "F." She listed attributes of each, writing that little "f" friends are a large group with sloppy admission standards, friends who don t know your parents first names, wonder about your romantic history, and feel like a guest in your home.
“Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly,” columnist Mary Schmich famously wrote in a hypothetical commencement speech and filmmaker Baz Luhrmann even more famously said in the spoken-word song ‘Everybody’s Free.