I find some people are extremely lucky that they have found what they like and good at. Some people can do all those things because they can do and the fact that they can't do. They can do economics, math, or commerce, or whatever career that their Asian parents approve. But they can't do their feelings. They don't know what they are doing, and they certainly have no idea if they like it or not. They, just, do it, like they have no feelings whatsoever. So I was sort of like one of them.
One of the things that I found about myself is that I can't do what my parents want me to do. My dad wants me to do computer science. In the other hand, my mom wants me to do architectures or engineers or economics or mathematics. If I told them that I'm going to try East Asian Studies, I WILL get murdered. Wait, hold that thought, I will get cut off, AND THEN get murdered. Because maybe I really don't enjoy doing linear algebra at the beginning, and maybe all this time I've told myself that I like math only because I used to be good at math.
BUT, I enjoy econimics? do I? I think I do. So even if it's going to take me 5 times to get into that program, I will do it. Because I like it, I enjoy it, and I start learning to put time in it. So there is that.
So the disappointment. Sigh. You could say that I lost/wasted/fucked up 2 years of time and money. At least that was how I look at it. Or you could say that I might just redefined success? I don't know. We'll see.
Oh and the cougar that I mentioned in the title. Yes, there was this mid-aged white woman (cougar) flirting at me during work. Well, I didn't flirt back. So then she got pissed at me and you could tell she's pissed. LOL