That giving up can be the best thing you can do at times.
Then you stop and you reflect and you have the aha moment and you say to yourself:
How didn't I see it before?
Always when something I do not want happens, at the end it works somehow best for me, so I just step back now and wait for what is to come — but it has to be great.
On the other note:
Almost no one believes in me and my abilities lol, but that's fine - I believe in me and I am my biggest cheerleader. The thing I never missed was motivation and I am so highly self motivated that I always achieved what I wanted somehow. Sometimes it took longer than expected, but I always was able to do it at the end.
Teachers in my high school took me as stupid because I hated that fucking institution - after year one or two I just decided I'm not gonna go there. I was going to a bookstore instead and reading books whenever I didn't feel like going to school.
So coming back to the topic - I wanna apply for music uni here. I did not have previous education in music, so everyone assumes I won't learn or I am not good enough or whatever, but I know inside myself that my motivation is enough and will be. You can think I am crazy and judge me like the German teacher - "just a weird silly girl" - and I couldn't care less, because if I want something I'm gonna do it regardless of whether you believe in me or not :)
I just needed to vent on the topic as almost everyone says I cannot do it, but there is one person that believes in me or just won't tell me they don't, and thank you for that, as for most of my life it was just me believing in myself.
I was the first in my family to have a degree (and the only one), first to move abroad, first to speak a different language, first to do sport regularly (although my brother has some intrest in in on and off), first to be vegetarian, first to play an instrument and be into music. No one ever believed I can do any of those things and every single person I knew was discouraging me from even trying to pursue those things.
Luckily I never relied on anyone's approval.