Would You Follow Your Dreams Even If They Were Against Your Family's Wishes?
By pinokkio
@pinokkio (352)
Bahrain
April 14, 2007 3:50am CST
I've been trying to be a proffesional scriptwriter for a number of years now.
I live in the Middle East so scriptwriting is not exactly a common job over here. Everyone working in the Media basically gets paid scrap for their work. I'm about to become one of those people who get paid scrap but my real goal is to become a screenwriter in Hollywood. It's a tough goal for me but I simply see no way around it since writing is the only thing that I know how to do and love.
However, my family believes that I might be wasting my time. They keep telling me it's better to just find a job in my country and just live like everyone else does. But I just won't listen. I'm going after that writing career with everything I've got.
Do you think I'm wrong to go against my family's wishes in order to follow my dream career?
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3 responses
@g_aileen09 (1354)
• Philippines
14 Apr 07
Let's face it: Our family is the greatest enemy of our career... especially if the profession or occupation that we are passionate about pays less than what they expect us to earn.
For our family want to see us become successful in the earliest possible time: and success, to most people is measured by the material things we have bought or would be able to buy.
But I tell you: set your priorities. If you have the resources, i mean---money to spend while pursuing the big break you are longing for, there should be no reason for you to listen to anybody.
Go pursue your dream, if it is the one that will truly make you happy.
Good luck.
@gbolly54 (661)
• Nigeria
14 Apr 07
I think no family has a right to impose a career or profession on an adult child. Doing that is like choosing a wife/husband for an adult child. Follow your interest, but try and explain respectfully to your family. You are old enough to decide what you want to do. Good luck.
@Kristien (78)
• China
14 Apr 07
I think your family have their reason to tell you to find a job in your country, because you must keep your basic live, right? But I support you to follow your dream in your spear time, a person will be successful easily in the field he loves, I think. So, keep your dream, and work hard, I wish I can see your name within the best screenwriters in Hollywood!
@pinokkio (352)
• Bahrain
14 Apr 07
But that's the point.
I don't want writing to be a spare-time thing, I want it to be full-time.
I don't believe the people working here are ambitious enough. They worry too much about their small salaries and how they will get on for the rest of their lives with it. I don't want to be that kind of person.
