Some of the saddest people I know are people who achieved a lot in high school/college (prestigious school, high grades, awards, etc) but were always chasing go

Some of the saddest people I know are people who achieved a lot in high school/college (prestigious school, high grades, awards, etc) but were always chasing goals set by their parents. In their post-college life, they've found themselves aimless because they quite literally don't know what they love. Meanwhile, my friends who had the freedom to explore and learn what they're passionate about are much happier today. (Yeah, I know, plural of anecdote is not data, etc, etc. But my sample of kids who were allowed to do whatever they want is slightly larger than the norm here because I was unschooled my whole life and so I'm in the position of knowing a lot of 20-something unschoolers, in addition to my peers who went to public/private school.)