I still have a really hard time reconciling the fact that great things were expected of me as a child with my eventual disillusionment
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I feel guilt that I'm not "accomplished," though I have no idea what I should be accomplishing
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Anything I could do either seems pointless or actively harmful
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People were expecting me to be the next great scientist or whatever
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I went to camps for the gifted to take courses, worked in labs since a young teen, took about 10 APs, etc.... for what, exactly?
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Here's a possibility: If you weren't invigorated and broadened by this then maybe you weren't being allowed to aim high enough.
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Work can be the core joy of life, but you have to be allowed to find work that is that for you.
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