People seriously need to learn when they shouldn’t give you input of how to live your life. Last I checked I’m my own person and I can make my own decisions.
My therapist dropped a gem: you can’t spend your life avoiding heartbreak or bad things from happening. You have to condition yourself to have appropriate emotional responses but learn to keep moving forward.
High school teachers: “this is not gonna fly in college your professors are going to be so strict”
College professors: “take a picture of me pretending to use my mug so I can send it in and get a free one”