From Conan's last night...

Tessa, my seventeen year old, was given this assignment last friday in her English Lit class: "Write your thoughts on the following comments made by Conan O'Brien, on his final hosting of NBC's The Tonight Show.



"All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people who watch. Please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — for the record it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you — it’s just true. "
What would've been your thoughts at seventeen?

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  2. If I was seventeen, which I am not...
    the seventeen that I was lived in a different world and I can try and remember what she would have thought. But really I can only answer from here and now. I think it it was a kind and an important message to young people. They were watching him deal with a disappointment and a change and he thought to put in a good word for not getting jaded and cynical...it's a great start.
    Of course love ultimately cannot seek itself and so the "good" one sets out to do must be free of demands. It is a good question you have asked. I hope some seventeen- right- now folks answer it.
    best wishes,
    Jeannette

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  3. Well- at 17 I was sure it was one of the gifts- ya know, like wisdom hahahah

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