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I Feel Sad

I'm a recent college grad and I still feel like a child because I'm still living with my parents. They still make my choices for me. I want to audition but I can't do that because I can't drive. I'm supposed to get my license soon but even when I get it, I'll have to use my parents car. I have a feeling they're gonna make me ask permission and I'll have to tell them where I'm going. My life is not turning out the way I want. I wish I had the money to live on my own and get my own car and have control over my own life. I may still be in my 20s but I feel like I need to start getting acting experience now before I hit my 30s. Before my age is used against me. I feel trapped in a cage and I wish there was an opportunity for someone to get me out. It doesn't matter when I tell people what I think. They have no advice for me. Same when I tell my parents how I feel. They wish that I didn't want to act as a career. They keep thinking about all of the people they know who haven't made it. They don't understand that those people don't apply to me. I keep thinking that maybe all of this is happening for a reason. That I'm struggling so much now because it will only make my story so much stronger once my dreams come true. I just feel right now that they'll never come true as long as I'm under my parents' control. I want to escape from this life and create a life of my own. But without money and stuck in the suburbs, I don't see that happening anytime soon. I hope I'm wrong one day.
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You are, of course, quite right. As long as you're stuck at home, your parents wont take your ambitions (or your adulthood) seriously, and getting a car wont help - the cost of running a car (insurance, maintenance, gas) will trap you even more firmly at home.
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You need to get out as a first step - to do that, you need to get a gig as a barista or waitress/cook or something, so you have an income that allows you to get out from home, and live somewhere (probably somewhere fairly squalid, alas, but still better) - and ideally on public transport lines or in the city enough to allow you to get to the theaters & acting venues without a car.
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All fairly traditional for struggling actors & writers, of course :/

 
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