With the 2015 SPM result set to be announced on March 3, and over 400,000 students deciding on their future after finishing school, there are bound to be parents who’d want their children to study a course which they absolutely have no interest in. These are the people who’d end up resenting their parents, changing courses behind their parents’ back, being stuck in a job they hate and choosing a career merely to please their parents or meeting society’s expectation. Miserable, lost and confused, some of these young people also go through a phase known as the ‘quarter-life’ crisis, a new phenomenon so prevalent among the Gen Y these days that it almost becomes some sort of a ‘rite of passage’. This, of course, is not something to be proud of. Is it possible to follow your dreams without hurting your parents?