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very well to what I am about to say. sake, and theirs.
Don't be a door mat!! Stand up for what
you believe in and what you admire One thing I want to touch upon is a bit
to be!! Because there is no one who grim, but it has to be said. Let's say that
will make it happen other than you! you ignored it all and you just want to
And know that there is no decision make your parents happy and do what
more powerful than yours! You make they want. You did, but the causes were
your own choices to make your own not reversible, "like marrying someone
life. We weren’t brought to this life to or equal to it in life". Imagine after you
wait for someone to tell us everything signed your life away in that decision....
we need to do! Your parents’ role ends Your parents die. No more among us.
with you becoming an adult. From So the people you were trying to please
there onward, you are on your own. have left you with not just one heart ache,
Thank them for raising you, for their but two. One is for losing them, and the
time and effort, and fly away with your other because you already lost your life
dreams. And know that if you tried to when they lost theirs. Because the pain
study/work a certain major/job just for and suffering and the depression that you
their sake, you'll be doing great harm are going to face will be for nothing. If
not only to yourself but to your parents you want to be comforted by their smile
as well. Know that you might take that and hang on just for a little bit, they are
work or major for so long until you already far beyond and unreachable.
get burnt out. And what comes after
that? Depression! Do you think your One last advice: "live your life to the
parents will feel at ease knowing that fullest; according to your happiness, and
you are depressed? What if they found the betterment of all".
out that they were the reason of your
depression? That would destroy them.
So make your own choices, for your
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