Misguided dreams

Dreams are a perpetually complex topic. From the day you are born, your parents express their expectations for you, and society expresses their expectations for you, and you choose friends who reflect your parents expectations that soon start to become your expectations. You become accustomed to these expectations and they soon start to dictate your life. They become your own expecations. And these expectations morph into your life dreams. And then you're starting to picture your life when you're all grown up and you picture the hopes and dreams that your parents were unable to achieve. They are not your hopes. They are not your expectations. And they are most certainly not your dreams. They are your parents unfulfilled desires. They are what they wished they would've accomplished at your age, but failed. They cope with their failures by watching you exceed at what they were unable to. So the real question is, how are you expected to carve your own path, when it is completely covered in the overgrown vegetation and debris of your parents failures? Whack them away, that's how. Start afresh. Go to some deserted island and find yourself, because happiness is not achieved by making your parents proud, but instead making yourself proud of the person you've become.