This isn’t going to be a “sharp scratch”.
The moment you tell your parents or guardians or society that you don’t want to follow the plan you’d previously agreed to…the one they’ve helped you pursue your whole life…there’s going to be conflict.
Painful conflict.
And a brutal emotional and psychological battle between their expectations and your exasperations.
This is going to hurt a lot, particularly since it involves people you love.
But as painful as this confrontation might be, it’s a fun day-on-the-beach when compared to what you’re left with if you don’t have this confrontation:
Regret.
If only, what if, woulda, coulda, shoulda.
The sort of regret that will haunt you every step of the way into your 80s and taunt you on your death bed.
And when asked about the things they regret most, virtually every “senior citizen” mentions regret over things they didn’t do rather than things they did do.
Jeff Bezos used this insight as part of his “regret minimization framework”…and was inspired/compelled to quit his job as a successful stock analyst to start a company called Amazon.com
Because the excruciating pain of disappointment and failure hurts way less than the agony of regret.
Either way, there’s pain. But you get to choose:
To disappoint them for a moment (and maybe delight them for a lifetime)…or just keep going through the motions to keep them happy, and live with terrible regret for the rest of your life.
The choice is yours.
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