I'm surprised at the vehemence of your reaction, and don't really know where to begin responding, so I'll just pick out this sentence: "Good god could you imag

I'm surprised at the vehemence of your reaction, and don't really know where to begin responding, so I'll just pick out this sentence: "Good god could you imagine the world if people stopped following their dreams so early in life" I imagine it would be indistinguishable from the way it is now. I don't see that the world is built on "great contributions to humanity", just the slow layering of knowledge upon knowledge. I'm glad you made yourself happier by applying yourself more diligently to your studies when you were in school, but "try harder" is not a helpful response to the parent comment. Almost none of us make any impact beyond our immediate social circle, and even if you do that impact will very quickly become indistinguishable from noise. You don't need to accept that, but it's true, and if you do accept it your life will be better