I know some people will see this as a problem of character pertaining to the more privileged youth of the world, but please bear with me as I'm trying to adapt and I'm sure others are in the same boat.

Does anyone know some strategies or have personal accounts of how they came to terms with the setup of society? For example, some difficulties I face are forcing myself to focus on homework when uninspired and normally studying is an extracurricular hobby for me. But trying to meet rigid expectations and deadlines on something I regularly used to see as an impulsive and creative pastime sucks all of the pleasure from a previously favored subject leaves me with a sense of hopelessness for my future. Then I even find myself avoiding the subject long after, as if I developed an aversion to it because of the regulations of the class setting. I'm sure everyone has faced problems with aligning their interests and ways of life to what society expects from them to be able to comfortably sustain themselves. So how do we learn to accept the requirements of the world in a more optimistic (and therefore less harmful) way?