Growing Up: When Work Became a Choice

n childhood it feels like everyone is out there telling you that you need to study and score good marks in exam. at certain point i started hating it.
i do not wanted anybody else to tell me what to do. perhaps everytime somebody told me to study i just felt "why should i study, i just don't want to i want to play or watch tv". but now when people say to me that i have to work hard to get job i don't dislike the idea. perhaps i've realised its the only way and it is what must be done. what else there is to do, perhaps i've grown now.
Back then, studying felt like a burden imposed by others. Now, working hard feels like a choice—a necessary one, but mine to make.