Okay, I know you didn't mean to do this and that you were upset, if anything you were complimenting me on my perseverance but it has made me feel guilty for my achievement, guilty for all this hard work that I do every day, I put so much on the line and the satisfaction right now is nowhere near what it should be but I carry on even when I would do anything to stop because it's my main goal in life. But after you wrote what you did to me and we spoke, it made me feel guilty for you not having the perseverance, I didn't want to gloat because I felt bad for you. But then, all of a sudden, I just thought to myself... why should I feel so bad for so much hard work? Even if it is for you. I refuse to do this, it doesn't matter how much I love you but my future is it for me.
I have worked so hard in my life to get to where I am, so hard. I came to England not speaking a word of English at the age of 8 and 10 years later, I am at one of the 3 best sixth form colleges in the country and I have gotten conditional offers from 4 great universities and I think back and about 7 years ago, I could still not speak English properly but now look at me. I have two basic GCSE educations, in the Czech Republic and England, not speaking of the many GCSEs I have from school and now, I am studying at A-B level for my final years of A-Level. My future is International Law, I want to travel, work for a big company, meet the contacts and I WILL make it regardless of anything else. This is my ambition, this is my life and I will not have you make me feel bad about it. I know you're having a hard time at the moment but I've tried to help yet only made things worse therefore I'll let you decide and only support you from now on. We have ideas that are far too different on this matter, a different mentality.
I don't blame you, I know in your eyes you haven't done anything wrong but this is such a big deal to me that I will not be put down, even the slightest bit about the efforts I have. I want you to be proud of me, not ashamed that you haven't taken the same opportunities. Everybody is different and they find what they want in life their way. You have other goals which I am envious of but this is the one successful aspect of my life that has never gotten me down. This has been consistent and it means everything to me therefore I can't take you saying anything negative about it. So much has gone into this, I have left every single last bit of energy on it and still don't achieve anywhere as much as I would like so I want the support all the more. This is the most important year of my life so far, if I get into university, I can do this but this year is so tough because the competition is so high. You have to understand my determination, the desperate need to do this because in my eyes, if I fail this, I have failed my life. Failed all my family and all the expectations, this is why so much is riding on it. I just want you to try to understand that and to understand that I am here for you to support you all the way even if I'd do things differently; because I love you and you're the most important person in my life but I need this to be right, to have you on my side and make me feel like I'm achieving not feeling bad that you've got a different lifestyle and different priorities.
- Eve Anna x