I'm a junior in high school. My entire life I've been the "smart" one in my family, and have always made As and Bs in school. My parents have flat out told me that I'm either going into the medical or law field, and I'm planning on going to pharmacy school. I have my entire life already planned out for me. I'm good at the stuff that I need to be good at, and I like it, but sometimes I just feel that I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I never get to be a real teenager. I barely have a social life, and I'm always backing out of hanging out with friends to do work. I've had the same boyfriend for the past 15 months, and while I do really love him, I just feel that it's always the same things happening over and over again. I just want things to be different. I want to do something crazy and stupid. I want to be a photographer, and maybe a writer. My sister is planning on being a tattoo artist or beautician. My brother wants to be a band teacher or potentially a musician if he can make it. My parents are supportive of both of them, but when I mentioned that I wanted to do something else, they flipped shit. I feel like I don't get to be my own person. My mom basically lives through me, making sure I do everything that she wanted (but couldn't do) when she was my age. I know that my parents are just making sure that I don't make the same mistakes as they did, I just wish that I was allowed to make my own decisions for my life.