♂💌 Father's letters

Publicado por Ana Dominguez Ruiz

♂💌 Father's letters

Famous fathers' words of wisdom for their daughters.

The bond between a father and a daughter is an irreplaceable one, and these letters certainly confirm that.

With this exercise you are practicing:

✅ Vocabulary

✅ Phonetics

✅ Grammar

✅ Colloquial writing style - a letter

Ethan Hawke
-a 2013 letter to his daughters:
Maya, Clementine and Indiana
published in TIME magazine.

"Dear girls,

I often wonder how your lives are different growing up as young women from what it was like for me as a young man. Is it the same? Is it radically different, or just a variation? For me, I believe much of life is the same—if we have a soul, I highly doubt it is masculine or feminine.

It’s hard to talk about love. I get shy and stumble around like a teenager myself. But I do want you to know that it is your life and I want you to be in charge of it. Go out and embrace all your passions.

Just remember that the secret to enjoying any romance is your own self-respect. If you respect yourself, you will be amazed at the quality of the people who show up around you, and how you begin to respect others. It’s a series of dominoes that fall all by themselves. It is in that sanctuary of respect where love can flourish.

My mother raised me to be a feminist and I wonder how I can do the same for you. The best advice she ever gave me is to never make a big decision without walking at least a mile. Also, that there is no cure for blues better than reading. Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

And remember, no matter what happens in life, you can handle it well and be happy, or handle it poorly and be miserable. Many failures have blossomed into triumphs, and many 'successes,' if not handled well, have wilted into disasters.