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From personal experience its very possible to believe you are obliged to sacrifice your own well being, and you are obliged to be passionate about something. Th
by ruleabidinguser 10y ago
From personal experience its very possible to believe you are obliged to sacrifice your own well being, and you are obliged to be passionate about something. This is my motivation here.
- sillysaurus3 10y agoAh. Yeah, I can see that. If the pressures are aligned too strongly in the other direction, and someone is feeling squeezed, they should focus on themselves and act accordingly. As you say, it's easy to forget that. Can we see eye to eye that my stance is the same thing, but from the opposite direction? It's very possible to believe you're obliged to do the safe thing, to worry about whether you're supporting yourself or living up to your parents' expectations, and to think that you should suppress your dreams to appease others. It's the path that society pushes you into by default, which is why it's worth being keenly aware of it and triple checking that you're ok with choosing it. Because you only get to make that choice once or at most a few times, often when you don't know any better.
- ruleabidinguser 10y agoSure I can see that I guess.
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