Un post su Facebook: cosi’ il ceo del social network, Mark Zuckerberg, e sua moglie Priscilla Chan hanno dato il benvenuto alla loro seconda figlia, August. Un post che e’ una lettera alla primogenita, Maxima, la cui nascita alla fine del 2015 era stata pure annunciata su Fb. “Puoi essere bambina solo una volta, dunque non stare troppo a preoccuparti del futuro. Per quello ci siamo noi, e faremo tutto quello che possiamo per rendere il mondo un posto migliore per te e tutti i bambini della tua generazione”, si legge nel messaggio, che prosegue: “Con tutti i progressi nella scienza e nella tecnologia, la tua generazione dovrebbe vivere una vita molto migliore della nostra e noi abbiamo la responsabilita’ di fare la nostra parte perche’ cio’ accada. Ma piuttosto che parlare di crescere, vogliamo parlare dell’infanzia. Il mondo puo’ essere un posto serio. Per questo e’ importante uscire fuori a giocare”. Come tutti i genitori, Zuckerberg e consorte, si sono poi augurati che la nuova arrivata dorma bene, e faccia frequenti sonnellini.
Ecco il testo integrale del post:
Priscilla and I are so happy to welcome our daughter August! We wrote her a letter about the world we hope she grows up in, and also hoping she doesn’t grow up too fast.
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Dear August,
Welcome to the world! Your mom and I are so excited to see who you will become.
When your sister was born, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up in — a world with better education, fewer diseases, stronger communities, and greater equality. We wrote that with all the advances in science and technology, your generation should live dramatically better lives than ours, and we have a responsibility to do our part to make that happen. Even though headlines often focus on what’s wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out. We’re optimists about your generation and the future.
But rather than write about growing up, we want to talk about childhood. The world can be a serious place. That’s why it’s important to make time to go outside and play.
You will be busy when you’re older, so I hope you take time to smell all the flowers and put all the leaves you want in your bucket now. I hope you read your favorite Dr. Seuss books so many times you start inventing your own stories about the Vipper of Vipp. I hope you ride the carousel with Max until you’ve tamed every color horse. I hope you run as many laps around our living room and yard as you want. And then I hope you take a lot of naps. I hope you’re a great sleeper. And I hope even in your dreams you can feel how much we love you.
Childhood is magical. You only get to be a child once, so don’t spend it worrying too much about the future. You’ve got us for that, and we’ll do everything we possibly can to make sure the world is a better place for you and all children in your generation.
August, we love you so much and we’re so excited to go on this adventure with you. We wish you a life of joy, love and the same hope you give us.
Love,
Mom and Dad
