I'm Kayla.

Hi everyone, welcome back to Teenager Therapy. I'm Gayao. I'm Thomas. I'm Kayla.

Sometimes I feel like mediocre dreams are kind of embarrassing. In a way, like, I don't

exactly know how to explain it, but there are times where I think, damn, I see people that are

really successful and they have a successful career. They're one of the best at whatever skill

they were good at, right? They're one of the best people in the industry in their little market,

whatever. And then I see that they're not like millionaires or they're not living in a huge

mansion or, you know, they just live like kind of in a regular home, maybe in a modest apartment.

And it just makes me think, like, damn, why does that feel like not enough? I feel that unless

I'm super mega rich and just ultra successful is just not enough, you know, like these dreams

aren't big enough. Yeah. I was talking about it with Kayla that it feels like everybody has to

have these really big ambitions in life. And if you have an ambition, like, oh, well, I just want

to get a house and have a family. It doesn't sound right. It sounds like you should be doing more

because everybody is doing more. And especially on TikTok, I think it's like people are putting out

these manifestations like, oh, you're going to become a millionaire. You're going to become this

like top model, whatever. And it's just we all aspire to be such big things that how much of it is

really us. And I just want people to push on. Yeah. And I feel like a lot of it is just, I mean,

it feels like it started since high school really. You know, you set these expectations for yourself

without meaning to maybe. And then other people see what you're doing. So then they expect that

of you or even more than the cycle just continues like onto college. And it just feels like you can never

go back. You just always have to be going forward and forward and forward. And I think, I mean,

even today, I was sort of thinking about this. And one of my classes, some people talk to alumni

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