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WHAT IS LIFE!!? Pls I need help Hi guys, I’ve been an member of this subreddit for awhile now. I finally feel the courage to share my thoughts,I don’t know if the Mods will approve this post but I really hope they do. Before I start I just want to say that I am a bit drunk now, but what I’m about to say is not some stupid shit. I am actually lost in life. I really need some reassurance and motivation from you guys. Let me start from the beginning. I have had a stutter since birth and I never really cared about it until I moved schools during my sophomore year of high school. I went into a new school in Connecticut moving from Austin, TX. I was 1 out of 5 indian american kids at my high school, and also one of the kids who never grew up with all the other ethnicity kids in my high school . I felt really out of place and I used to get bullied everyday saying that I was smelly despite me taking 3 showers a day and using all the deodorants and fragrance possible and this is not even the worst part. The worst part is I couldn’t even defend my self for all the bullying because of my stutter. I was literally scared to speak not because of physical harm done to me. But me being labeled as a retard who can’t even speak. I still fought through all of this and got through high school and I decided to go India for my bachelors. The main reason I went there was to force my self out of my comfort zone and also before going to India. I took a speech course and this was the only course that helped me actually overcome my stutter, I still stutter but it’s so little that people don’t even know I have a stutter until I let them know. But my mind still makes me think I am the same helpless insecure kid from high school and that makes me stutter In job interviews. Right know I am doing my masters in cybersecurity and I am in my final semester. This year I have done things I have never thought I could do as a kid. I just walked into a company and spoke my way to a internship, I am not bragging but this is a really big deal for me. I don’t even give a fuck that I have an internship but I’m proud of the way that I got that internship, but here’s the thing I couldn’t care less about getting a job nor I am passionate about my field. This is just a means to survive. My real passion lies in helping people. I know this sounds cliche, but this is what i feel happy and fulfilled doing. I have always wanted to be a lawyer since I was a kid but my stutter made me give up on that dream, but now since I overcame that stutter. I feel like I can actually be a “Great” lawyer because this is something I am really passionate about, and I know I will be happy and successful if I become a lawyer. But I have spent so much time studying and fighting for a fair chance In cybersecurity. I don’t know if I should stick with cybersecurity or if I should use cybersecurity as a stepping stone to becoming lawyer, I mean the money aspect of law school, but sometimes I feel like I am not being realistic sure I can become a lawyer on paper but will I actually be a good lawyer. I have also thought about starting a business where I only hire people with disabilities since I know the pain of being overlooked because of something you can’t control I know this is a long post, most of y’all won’t read through the entire thing, but for those who do what advice would you give me ?