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When parental pressure overrides personal timing

I was going to take a gap year after college to volunteer overseas but my parents convinced me to go straight to law school and I've regretted it every day since.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Other people's urgency about our lives can rush us past experiences that would have shaped us fundamentally.

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