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[Freddie New @freddienew]

My parents died suddenly in a car accident 25 years ago this year. I was 21, and became a guardian for my little brother and sister (10 and 12 at the time).

I've spoken about the accident and its impact on a couple of podcasts, but it's fresh on my mind as my brother just shared with me a handwritten letter I sent to him at his school. He's kept it with him ever since.

I've transcribed it below; he told me last night that it's helped him many times over the past two decades. Sharing it here in case what I said back then in an attempt to help a little lost boy is of assistance to anyone else.

23 July 2002

To Harry, From Freddie.

1. Don't panic.

2. You have many people watching your back. I am one of them and I am watching it very closely.

3. The accident was nobody's fault. Therefore we cannot legitimately blame anyone for it. We call it an accident for this reason.

4. We cannot bring Mummy and Daddy back – but this has important consequences:
– We need to remember what they taught us.
– We need to behave as they would have wanted us to.
– Because they are not alive, but we are, we owe both ourselves and their memory a duty to live as well and as fully as we possibly can, not to give in, not to give up. Because of the accident we have been given a very special insight into what it means to be alive – to live as fully as we can, to consider others, to work at what we are good at, and work even harder at what is difficult.

Something has been wasted, something has been lost. We must make sure that our lives are not. We shall always regret that Mummy and Daddy are not here – let us not regret anything we do, or know that we had a chance and threw it away.

Whatever happens, I have got your back. Even if I do sometimes hit you with cricket balls.

Run straight, look your foe in the eye, and never back down. Strength and honour!

I love you very much.

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

Drill this into your brain: What you want 10 years from now will be entirely different from what you want right now. Optimizing the rest of your life for what you want right now and deferring what you want right now for later in life are equally dangerous. The 20-year-old brain yearns to travel the world because it's encoded for exploration. They're told to wait until they've made it, and spend the next 30 years daydreaming about the day they retire, only to reach that point and realize their 60-year-old brain wants different things.

Your goal should be to achieve that which feeds your soul right now, while building towards what you anticipate to matter in the future. This requires a level of multi-order thinking that most can't entertain, which is why they end up deferring their entire life or becoming slaves to immediate gratification.

We see this play out into two archetypes: The Peter Pan and the masochist. One sacrifices his future for the present, and one sacrifices his present for the future. Neither enjoys the full human experience. As with all things, the one who can learn from both, avoid common pitfalls, and forge his own path truly wins in the end.

[𝐄𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 @ElImperialEsp]

🇪🇸 Ceuta, España | 🔴 NO NOS QUEDA NI EL EJÉRCITO: Sale a la luz un vídeo de militares españoles alentando a los marroquíes para penetrar territorio nacional: "Vamos amigo venga, se libre, jai”.

[— @SWKreturns]

Democracy and classic liberalism do not solve these problems.

They are in fact the issue.

The post WW2 order is coming to a close. Monarchy and the rejection of the separation of Church and State is required.

[— @SWKreturns]

Absolutely

[La Jolla @liberscravola]

We were lied to in school Franco was the good guy in the Spanish Civil War.

[Rеvеn @RevenRV]

Se han colado 40.000 Mohas en una ciudad de 80.000 habitantes.

[— @SWKreturns]

Today was a dark day in Spain, to say the least.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Everything you see on a daily basis around here, from tens of thousands of Africans pouring across an unguarded border into Spain to violent criminals with 30+ arrest records being let back out into the streets of America to the police in the UK treating English flags with more urgency that Pakistani rape gangs, is a direct consequence of the fact that Western Civilization no longer has any immune system because it believes treating viruses any different than blood cells to be an act of bigotry.

[𝑵𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆 @Nobleheart]

ＵＮＤＹＩＮＧ

[Soberanía fija discontinua @elpokemonese]

La "España feliz" no es o fue una época, son los españoles.

[MEDITERRÁNEO DIGITAL @MediterraneoDGT]

🇪🇸🇦🇷 Un argentino vacila a los españoles y recibe karma instantáneo

[VP|Simon0A @Simon0aVp]

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

[— @SWKreturns]

@NatCap1776 I’ll keep the stats going:

61% English

24% Scottish

11% German

4% Nordic

[— @SWKreturns]

@Perpetualmaniac @bryan_johnson True

[— @SWKreturns]

The ads model played into the model of the attention technology platforms.

This is a big step towards a better incentive structure for the digital world.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Finally, the web has native monetization. Ads were not the only way.

[Rage ❉ @ragecvlt]

I fight for a dream, so that one day I can wake up in one.