Let your parents’ hopes for you be a map. You still get to pick the road.
STILLNESS
STILLNESS
Hopes your family holds for you carry real information: what they have watched you do well, what they wish they had done, what they are frightened of. Treating that as a map is useful, because a map shows terrain. Treating it as a set of instructions is where the trouble starts. You can keep the knowledge and still choose the direction.
Ask one of your parents what they wanted for themselves at your age, and listen properly. Keep whatever is useful. Decide the next step yourself, then tell them what you decided.
Which of your parents’ hopes fits you, and which does not?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.