Sleepwalking Into a Life You Didn’t Want

You won’t love your life by accident

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I used to think the worst-case-scenario was failure. But I’ve realised the worst thing is succeeding at something I don’t want.

In school, I did the subjects I was told to do and did well in them. Then I became an engineer like my parents and peers wanted, and I’m ok at it. But sometimes I stop and ask myself:

Did Eren actually want any of this?

I’m grateful for everything I have, and wouldn’t change a thing, but I can’t help but feel like I’ve been placed on a train, and it’s going somewhere I don’t even want to go.

And something has started to dawn on me.

I think that many people end up in a mediocre life that they don’t like — not because they chose it, but because they didn’t choose at all.

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Cam is a friend of mine from high school. I met him playing tennis.