I didn’t say anything back. It took a while before the words actually registered. I’m in high school right now, and I’m not a bad student, I have a 3.9 GPA, but I have absolutely no intention of going off to college or university and everyone in my family knows this. I’ve always been the ’smart’ one in the family, so they all expect me to do something amazing with my life. All I want to do is travel, but since there’s no money in that I’m an idiot. For the last two years they’ve been guilt tripping me about this.
It really hurts because I feel like I HAVE to go to University and get some high paying job or else they’ll never be happy with me. And I know it sounds selfish, but I’d rather just make myself happy. - written 2 years, 10 months ago