Dear soon-to-be lawyer

Try living your own future

Pursue your own dreams, not your parents,

they have reached enough in life, you don’t need to prove it to them.

Stop trying to impress your parents, I know they’re not impressed from what you told me about them

I don’t know much about them myself, I know your dads rich and your mom is a teacher correcting class tests with a Mount Blanc fountain pen

Because she’s a teacher, you think you can get her attention through grades,

but it isn’t doing yourself any good

You bury yourself in books and loose index cards

Every night you have bad dreams about getting an F in math or forgetting all the vocabularies for the test the next day

It’s a sign of being burnt out, you’re 15 you shouldn’t be burnt out

Since the day you came to school sick just because we were writing a tests everyone knows that something is wrong,

yet none is able to help

The teacher talked to you before the test,

he was debating on sending you home because you looked too sick to even concentrate

you still took the test

and you still got an A-

(and then cried yourself to sleep for having “failed”)

You don’t get that your grades neither define you nor your future,

Maybe you do, but you’re tangled in the web of your parents desires,

you can’t find out what you’re meant to be,

you crave the freedom to explore new land

Yet the weight of expectations bears on your back

too heavy for you to escape

Even though I don’t care about grades I still I hope you graduate at the top of your class because you told me if you did not life was not worth living anymore