stand still

I am at the point right now that everyone else feels the need to tell me whats best for me...but guess what...i dont need the advice. I am at a stand still and everyone wants to pull me in a different direction. I want someone to talk to and give me good answers or just to be sympathetic to my situation, not to lecture me about what a mess you think i am making of my life. the fact that so many people want to try to tell me how to live my life when their lives are nowhere near perfect...or even averagely good for that matter seems almost laughable at best. whatever happened to people saying you learn from your mistakes? now adays everyone is about avoidance. well sorry to disappoint but i for one am not about taking the easy out and missing a chance on the odds that it may or may not work out. if im not allowed to make my own decisions i will remain what i have always been...my parents puppet, a cookie cutter poster child for obedience, but i am so tired of it. not questioning anything, being told that things will be taken away from me if i dont obey or do things the exact way they want them, news flash IM 19 (20 in exactly 1 month)! i will make my own choices from now on no matter why tries to tell me otherwise because in the end its my life and the people running my life are not going to be the ones paying my bills in the future so i will be the only one in charge of me END OF STORY :)