Ignore people to tell you not to do the thing you love.
Love - as I define it - is what you’re willing to sacrifice to keep something.
You just need to decide which one you love more. Your dreams or their approval.
You sacrifice one for the other.
“Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”
-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
You can be pro-capitalism and not have the psychosis of fetishizing stuff. I know because I fetishize people instead. They’re the most interesting thing on the planet. I participate in capitalism to buy my freedom out of an oppressive system so I can dwell in the realm of ideas.