A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother

Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by return-value on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:57PM (#18097718)

but Winston you are old enough to see how serious this is to you—& how the next year or two & the use you make of them, will affect your whole life

She sounds like a terrible mother, but those lines aren’t wrong. I squandered a lot of my youth, and I’m paying the price now. I can’t change it, and even if I could I doubt my younger self would take it serious, but how you spend your twenties really determine how you spend the next 40 years of your life. That’s not to say you can’t change or catch up, Churchill is a testimony to that, but the hard work won’t do itself.

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Re:A Letter From Winston Churchill’s Disappointed Mother by philwelch on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:02PM (#18097731)

I don't think she sounds like a terrible mother at all. Sometimes a wayward son needs some tough love--and I don't think that idea was the slightest bit uncomfortable to a British mother in the Victorian era.

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