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Why do certain individuals keep trying to make me choose adhesion to a broad and situationally useless standard over my own personal happiness and success? Okay. Conversations with my mother/father/stepfather typically go like this (a la the great Nate):
THEM: "So, what are you going to do in X college?"
ME: "Oh, well. Maybe music."
THEM: "No, I mean, what are you really going to do?"
ME: "...psychology?"
THEM: "Oh come on, that doesn't pay. What are you really going to do?"
And so on and so on until they suggest either engineering or business or some shit like that, neither of which I have any aptitude or desire for. Fuck that shit. I know exactly why they're not supportive of me. I know why they think I'm some failure derelict bad-choice-making morally retarded and misguided, lost, misguided youth. My parents and I really don't "hang out." When in my life will they stop equating academic performance to personal success and improvement? It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
Astounding!
THEM: "So, what are you going to do in X college?"
ME: "Oh, well. Maybe music."
THEM: "No, I mean, what are you really going to do?"
ME: "...psychology?"
THEM: "Oh come on, that doesn't pay. What are you really going to do?"
And so on and so on until they suggest either engineering or business or some shit like that, neither of which I have any aptitude or desire for. Fuck that shit. I know exactly why they're not supportive of me. I know why they think I'm some failure derelict bad-choice-making morally retarded and misguided, lost, misguided youth. My parents and I really don't "hang out." When in my life will they stop equating academic performance to personal success and improvement? It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
Astounding!