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It pains me to be here. It pains me to have become this person. It pains me to know I’ve spent all of my life chasing something that was never meant for me, knowing I’ve wasted twenty two years of my life for this. Oh honey you deserve it. That’s all I hear because so many people warned me, so many didn’t believe I was good enough and I made it my life mission to prove them wrong. My high school friends never thought I would enter medical school, my science teacher in high school told me the first day to quit. And I proved them wrong I guess but what is left of me. All my life I needed to be good enough to justify all that my parents gave up for me, to justify all that I sacrificed. All my life I needed to be good enough to deserve love. I constructed all my life around the idea of being perfect for others to regret their words or for others to think I was worth loving, existing. So i’m here now with nothing that is mine, without goals that weren’t first my parents’, without love for myself that wasn’t first validation from strangers.  Now I see people making a life for themselves. People who seemed so far behind me once upon a time, built a life for themselves without misery. They grew up while I was stuck here, miserable just like when I was a sixteen. What happened?  What do I do now? I feel so fragile, so aimless, so spoiled, so ruined. All I ever did was being a good student. I am an adult now and it’s not enough anymore, I cannot hide behind books anymore. And when I took a breath I was left behind, cannot start again because if I don’t have the admiration of other people what do I have? Once I might have loved medicine. But I don’t have it in me, the vocation to be a doctor and, after realising it, I stayed anyways. How I can come back from that? I don’t know how to begin again from nothing. All I know is I’m unhappy here, I’m unhappy with the person I’ve become. All I know is that I’m searching for the courage to disappoint myself. I hope my mother can forgive me, didn’t make her proud
Mar 29, 2025

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just dropped out of university about a month ago and also completely overwhelmed by the same anxieties. but i ultimately know i’ve done the right thing for myself and my happiness and im trying to remember how exciting this is !! not a clue what im gonna do with myself but i think the only way to get through it is to embrace the unknown - ur never going to be as free as u are now. wishing u the best of luck, just remember you’re going to be okay !
Mar 29, 2025
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@444RUBY it helps to know i‘m not alone thank you. we are definitely gonna be okay but I needed an emo moment to clear my mind. I hope everything goes your way girl.
Mar 30, 2025
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Knowing something isn’t for you has courage and power in itself. You might feel aimless but this feeling is pointing you to a direction. You may not know where it leads now but you will in time. You may be disappointing people with your decision but you can come out feeling more alive in the end. You got this !! <3
Mar 29, 2025
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@VALOORIE thank you. your words hit hard since I’ve been trying to really listen to my intuition. for years I didn’t know why I was so unhappy and I realised it’s because many times I‘ve let other people convince me to stay in wrong places thanks to trust in myself
Mar 30, 2025
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sounds like a crisis of meaning, which is tough, but you’ll come out the other end with something more authentic and rewarding to pursue
Mar 29, 2025
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