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I have a newsflash for you: you will not be a successful artist, singer, actor, novel writer, or sports star. If your life plan is to record a hit song and become a pop star, you might as well buy a lottery ticket and hope that works out. The chances of success are roughly the same.

I don’t care how many friends and family members tell you you’re a good singer, they’re biased and probably don’t have it in them to crush your dreams. I don’t have either of those problems and can honestly tell you that you’re not as talented as you think you are.

Its okay to have goals, I'm not advocating that we should give up all inspiration, but they are something that we should work on over the weekends, not plan a life around. Your persistence that your dreams are actually going to manifest is as naïve as it is annoying. Get some realistic goals in life and give up your stupid kindergarten pipe dream. This is the real world, and it’s hard and relentless. The sooner you realize that you are not especially talented in anything, the quicker you can get on a life path that will actually add something productive to society, because I assure you your silly novel is not helping anyone.