Good advice. The phrase I hear time and time again that makes me just want to rip my hair out is "oh, you don't want to do that" or "you can't just do that". It almost always follows telling someone about a plan I'm really, really excited about.

So now I just lie. Haha. I just tell my family I'm gonna follow the "normal" path, do my own thing, and afterwards give them a little "see it turned out fine" routine.