Your life may suck, this could be why

It’s often easy to give up your passion and beliefs in favour of the ‘beliefs’ of society. As a child, most of us get told that in some way that successful people all graduated from university, that “you need a degree to be successful”, “you should become a <insert job title here>” and “you’re going flip burgers if you fail your education”. All of these statements are door-closers. Being told to become a doctor affects your decision making, because it reinforces the thought “Doing that will make me successful”. Since all of these influences start from very early on, it’s hard to see the difference between your own desires, and your adopted desires.

After all is said and done, and you’ve managed to fulfil all your adopted desires, it’s incredibly likely that you’re stuck doing the day job you’re never looking forward to. Your life effectively turns into a strive for reaching retirement age. That time will be when you’ll realise how many of your own desires and ideas you gave up on just to make the expectancies of the society you grew up in a reality.

If you are doing something that you don’t love doing and that are not passionate about, it’ll break you up eventually. Don’t base your decisions on the decisions of others, because that means you’re not making any decisions at all. Some of us fit perfectly well in the education system of the country they live in, some don’t. Your chance of success in life is not dependent on something like education. If anything, the value in education is that it teaches you ways to learn, and a basic amount of knowledge that makes it easier to start off with. Real value is in the knowledge you obtain through actually doing something, making decisions and observing the results.