This is why sayings like Shakespeare's "To thine own self be true" have become classics. Perhaps you are more "evolved" - emotionally, intellectually, psychologically - than the rest of your family. So the question is, do you live DOWN to their standards and stay unhappy and unfulfilled, or do you rise to your own standards and and wishes and desires, and risk them making fun of you, and losing their approval because you no longer fit in, and they just don't understand you and why you aren't satisfied with the way things are? Why do you have to be different?! Or are you just being yourself - as they are! Nobody is stopping them, right? They are happy in their lives. Why are they trying to stop you? If they are NOT happy, why would they want you to be unhappy also? The old generation only knows what worked for THEIR generation - they do not know what it takes to succeed among your peers, they have not spent every day in school with them, building the current society, absorbing data every minute like little human computers. Your gut is smarter than you realize.