"Some people aren't meant to do what they love to do."

Yesterday I emailed a loved one, and I told him about my thoughts about how I feel like I don't belong at Tech. How I don't have a passion for what I'm studying. None at all. (And it doesn't help that I just miserably failed a test about an hour ago.) How I feel like even at this age, I still have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life. This is part of his response:

"Don't get your hopes too high. Be as normal as possible. People do not always do the things they want to do all the time. Don't expect that you will be different. If you do, you will never be happy."

What is this? Be as normal as possible? To not dream big, to not expect too much, to be average? It made me question so many things... Why am I trying so hard then? If I'm one of those people who is not meant to do what they love to do (although I'm not exactly sure what that is for me yet), then why am I trying so hard? If I'm meant for a "normal" and "average" life, for only that, then why am I doing all that I'm doing? Why does it upset me so much for someone to tell me that it's okay to be average? Not all of us can pursue our passions? Are most of us really supposed to live lives in which we can't do what we love to do?

No. Not me. I refuse to let my grades, my GPA, my academic performance, even my dad's words limit my potential. My failures, though many, will not hold me back. I refuse to let my ambition go to waste. I'm going to live out to whatever the heck it is that God has called me to be, and I refuse to think that He has created me to be only average.