My dad expects me to take over the family business but I want to be an artist and I'm thirty-five and still haven't told him because I don't want to be the one who ends our family legacy.
More people experience this than they realize.
Inherited expectations become cages where personal authenticity feels like ancestral betrayal.
“Where Are You with East Asian time and face-saving?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.