The need to go to college, the pain of studying for entrance exams.
I'm in my second year of high school. Since I was little, my parents' fights and bad talk, hospitalization and rehabilitation due to an accident, and tinnitus due to depression and the sequelae of deafness have overlapped, and I have a feeling that “I have lived without time to rest my mind.” It was also influenced by that, and now I have a strong feeling that “I want to live my own way of life with as little stress as possible.”
A few months ago, I first got a job that made me think “I want to get this job.” Even high school graduates can apply for that job, but parents and older acquaintances say, “College graduates have an advantage, and if that job doesn't go well, it's better to go to college because it will expand the path when that job doesn't go well.” I understand what you're saying, and I also understand the merits of being a college graduate.
However, I don't have “what I want to do at university.” I also looked up faculties, but I can only think of universities as “places to qualify as college graduates,” and I'm not motivated to study for entrance exams. I have a personality where I can't continue my efforts unless I am “convinced that it is necessary.”
Moreover, when I run into problems I don't understand in my studies, I feel a strong sense of stress because I remember the experiences of being yelled at by my father in the past or laughed at by my cram school lecturer. Sometimes the more you feel like crying, the more mentally exhausting it is.
People around you say, “Do your best now so you don't suffer in the future.” But for me, my current suffering is much more real than future suffering that I still can't even imagine. Even now, I'm quite exhausted just studying for the entrance exam, and I'm not fully convinced even when people say “suffer now for the future.”
Maybe it's better to go to college in order to live a less stressful life. But studying for the entrance exam for that is the hardest thing for me right now.
When I look back at the details of the consultation, I feel that my field of view has narrowed.
What should I think about moving forward?
