YOUR LIFE, YOUR DESTINY, YOUR CALL.

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See, it sucks that several youths are just wasting their precious time studying courses their parents wanted them to study, it sucks that they are taking exams their parents wanted them to take and going after degrees that they were asked to go for. The privilege of choice gets ripped from them and they live someone else's (usually their parents') life.

I just wish they would become a little bit stubborn and defiant when it comes to issues like this and take career paths their hearts wants and they love.

I have a classmate that said he was studying pharmacy because he was forced to and when his through with it, he will go back home and give his parents the pharmacy certificate and then move on to study what he actually wanted to study (which was computer engineering). That's pretty disappointing, am just worried for him because he will end up wasting years of his life doing what he was forced to do.

In another case, a friend of mine who was at the engineering department changed to business and economics department on his own without the knowledge of his parents. He had to make this radical decision because his father already rebuked him when he said that he would like to be studying business and economics not engineering. I admire his courage in doing this and knowing that he had control of his life and destiny.

I know so many kids that kept taking exams over and over again, just to get into college and study courses recommended by their parents (but not wanted by they themselves). It's disappointing to know that they would be better off somewhere else, doing what they actually love, but have been held beck by the people who brought them into this world.

It's very important the youths know that though their parents might have brought them into this world, they themselves literally have their destiny in their hands. Parents have the responsibility to support and cheer their kids towards achieving goals and dreams they have. It would be much better if parents allow their kids to live lives of their own not the lives of their parents or the lives their parents think they should live.

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinion drown your own inner voice. And the most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary". - Steve Jobs.