If you don’t pass your classes, you are betraying yourself. None of those naysayers are going to be around if you’re broke and you need help when you’re grown. They’re just trying to convince themselves that being on the bottom is OK. You don’t have to do that. Make choices for yourself and your own well-being. They don’t have authority over you, so don’t give them that power.
In the future, after you’ve graduated college, gotten into the career of your choice, worked hard, gotten to know the right people, and then you’re sitting in your beautiful home doing a job you like, where will they be if they keep thinking and acting the way they do? Do you want to be where they’ll be? Or do you want to live a better life for yourself?
I’m a woman, but speak from much experience, @yungbuckie. Let me put it like this: the girls who tried to put me down and call me “wannabe” and all that mess for doing well in school and being smart? Those girls have 27–28 year old children now.
We’re all in our early 40s. Do the math.
OK? So that’s where that mentality got them. I don’t live in that neighborhood anymore.