Timeline(Idk how to work it on the Yt timeline): 0:00 Mysta talks about his music passion and why he gave it up. 1:17 The mentality of 'Older is right' 1:52 You don't need to earn a lot to be able to pursue your dreams 2:31 You don't need to be somewhere by a certain age 6:42 Why Mysta tries not to give his opinions 11:01 Mysta gives you some final encouragement on doing what you want in life. To anyone who wants to chase their dreams, go for it. Why listen to other people say that your dreams are unrealistic to have in society when they don't understand the value of your dreams?

hes actually strangely wise despite not washing rice

4:05 the time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time 😌😌

I bullied Mysta too much to the point i relate to him and that he's now probably my biggest comfort vtuber🥲

I dropped out some time back now. I was a pretty good student and could have easily gotten far in college without much issue, but then I took a step back and asked a single question of myself. "Where are you going?" I didn't have a answer because I never thought of it. Just went with what was expected. "If you don't know where you're heading, why are you running?" It's been a rough couple years but I'm much happier since I dropped. It's let me figure myself out and learn what I like, what I dislike, what I'm good at, who I am.... I still don't have the answer to that question, but I dont think it matters anymore because I'm happy now. That's why we strive to get farther in life, right?

I was under so much pressure to have a career and be married by 20 that it broke me. For a decade I thought something was wrong with me because I didn't have my life decided by then. I had a break down, broke up with the guy my parents wanted me to marry, and dropped out of school. Then my younger co worker made fun of me saying I was now to old to start over. If I had a time machine I'd go back and tell myself that so many people change their minds multiple times in their life as they get older.

I feel like Mysta's just been through a whole fuck load of shit in his life, causing him to mature just a little faster than someone his age probably should. I guess what I think is that people who say you have to be at a certain place by a certain time are the people who never really felt so strongly about giving up their dreams. I'm having major exams this year, but I also started to discover more of my interests, one of them being volleyball. As I was preoccupied with trying to train to get better in volleyball, my grades deteriorated (due to a bunch of reasons, not just primarily my newfound interests). I started forming this mentality that if one wants to survive in this world, it's better that they don't have any hobbies. It's such a harsh mindset, but it seems the most realistic. Right now, I still hold my hobbies and interests close to me, but I'm putting them off for after the major exams have finished. Hopefully I'll have enough time.

tw: vent i dropped out of school because i was in my last years of highschool and the pressure to get good grades really got to me. my meals mostly consisted of canned tuna bc i didnt wanna waste any time not studying and slept around 5 hours daily. some months later i completely burned out and woke up crying for weeks not wanting to go to school anymore. my grades absolutely hit rock bottom and i felt worthless bc i lost everything that i had pride in. i felt incapable since i wasnt able to do everyday tasks. even when my parents were fine with me not going i still cried every day. luckily back then axia and lauren streamed a lot so i was busy doing other things. growing up i had a lot of passion for many things though i never let myself enjoy these things. i wanted to have a successful future at the same time i was blinded by the perfect idea of going to school, college and then getting a job. im glad that clicked on this video bc another person saying all these things you felt bad about are okay after all really relieves me its fine if this comments gets deleted but i just wanted to share how true mystas statements are

MYSTAA THANK UU AND THANK U SO MUCH FOR CLIPPING THIS.. YOU TWO ARE MVP. I'm really really crying watching this. I am a beginner artist. I like drawing because I like making art since I was a kid. I admire some artist like LAM, cierra, or even HoeL (mysta and shu's mama). And I want to be like them. But right now I feel like rather that make them as inspiration, I slowly starting to feel like I MUST be them. Gain so much follower and have a big company to commis me. And that's what makes me started to not enjoying doing art like now. I set to high goals and start hating every of my art like "why is my skill is not like those artist that I admire? Why I am stuck at my level. Am I even an artist?" I think about grind my skill and want to be like succesfull artist at such a young age (I am 22 this year). And this is makes me like stuck because I started wanting to be someone else, and not enjoying every process when I make an art. And then today, I found this video by youtube algorhythm. I am now crying cause what Mysta's said is just like punching myself like "you need to remember why you like making artwork at the first place". I am sorry for ranting and for my bad english

I have immense respect for this man I swear, he's honestly such a role model

Damn, I almost cried watching this. I somehow convinced myself that I need to live up to the expectations put on me by people I want to make proud. But, at the end of the day, who cares? Why waste a bunch of my life unhappy and having a jumpstart in a certain career, when I could be happy and take things slow? I love the unwashed-rice boy so much and I'm so glad I got into Nijisanji! Thank you for the clip xo.

For those who want to make music, most of the lucrative work isn't in making songs you like, experimentation won't pay for coffee. However, this is the best time to make music, getting an o line part time job is easier, recording is easier, publishing, marketing, mixing, mastering, connecting with the audience, finding an audience, even music knowledge, you can learn enough to write songs or become a total music nerd without leaving your room or having to sell your parents for $12k boxes that do the same than a volume knob. Doesn't matter if you like pop, punk, atonal Opera or doom jazz, go for it

I'm almost 27 now, I got a degree in something I'm not really interested in or passionate about, even with this degree, related jobs are not well paid, I've had very simple jobs before but rn idk what kind of job should I seek. I tried to do something i like as an artisan but i can't make a living with it so i gave up. Not only i have to bear with people's expectations and judgement, but also I still don't know what I would enjoy for a job. I feel so old and lost at this age, but Mysta's words are somehow comforting. I'm glad he found something he enjoys as a job also now he has a better life, he deserves it ♥️

This! It's speak to me so much, i "wasted" 5 years at the university doing something i don't like. In law school because my parents wanted a good job for me. Yes It was my choice but i was very influenced by them "you can have a good job like lawyer or prosecutor" "what will you do with art?" my first choice and dream was to go in a art school. Those 5 years even if they were terrible (i dropped out because of my mental health etc. ) they made me stronger. After a gap year doing what i like, living my 23 i decided to restart everything at 24y old. It wasn't easy i was afraid because usually people's have to be at a certain place at a certain age. All my friends were graduate. So I didn't want to be judged. But honestly i didn't want to have more regrets so here i am at 25y in a new university doing something i like (i had my first semester) next year i will have to study abroad for my cursus. i don't think too much about the after I'm just doing my best for it.I'm not in a art School yet i didn't gave up the idea about making money with my art. It's okay if i don't earn money for the moment maybe one day. In conclusion go for your dreams if you can and if you "missed" the timing it's not too late.

crying, sobbing, rolling in my bed, as someone with financial instability, getting a job with high salary was a goal, but now Im pursuing arts because fck it, if im gonna die, might as well do the things im passionate about, my earnings may be low but Im quite happy, I can worry of the other things when it actually comes because at the end of the day it will be fine, just hope in the dark

Legit gonna tear up, im 22, struggle with this daily and hearing it out in to words was so nice to hear. I realized that even though my drawings haven’t reached many, I still had so much fun drawing

I left my passion to draw behind to concentrate on school only because it felt as if I hadn’t enough energy for both. School wasn’t what I wanted to choose but everyone around me gave me the feeling that I have only this choice and I was pretty young at that time. So I drew less but I wasn’t good in school either. It was more a survival situation for me I had to get through somehow. Five years later I graduated with an okay degree. I had counted the years to finish school and be finally free. But it wasn’t like that at all. Till that point I just lived and worked for the hope to be free one day but what that meant to me was a question I never asked myself before. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I had no confidence in myself neither I knew what I am good at. So I ended up literally hiding in my room for a year. School had drained me mentally so much that I was actually afraid of working again. It made no difference if it was a hobby or applying for a job. Everything felt like the heaviest work I possibly could do. After that year I decided that I had to change something. A friend helped me applying for a work and travel job and so I went there. Later I realized that was the first time in my life I was surrounded by people who didn’t expect anything from me. They where just nice. When I came back home from that nice experience I really could see the difference of how nice these strangers where compared to the toxic environment I called my home. Three weeks later I packed my stuff and traveled to another country knowing that I won’t go back to my hometown for years, maybe decades. I started to live in a little village in the mountains living from my savings. At first I was nervous how long the money would be enough but after some time I just allowed myself to not worry for the first time since years. I’m almost living since a years now in that village and I learned so much. I felt always sad that I kinda lost the connection to the passion I once had. But through this new time in my life I found a bunch of new ones. How I experience passion now is different then how I experienced it when I was younger. But I try to have patience with me and let everything come naturally. Actually, the last days and especially today was when I couldn’t let off of the pen and drew over six hours at once. I didn’t felt like that since I was a child. Just wanted to share this.

Man, I think we all can relate. It's not that these older people (parents, teachers, etc) have malicious intent or are completely wrong but I just wish I had the balls to keep pursuing my dream back then. Now I am having this jealousy for my friend who has the same dream and pursuing it rn. Not healthy, not my friend's fault but I can't help to feel it that way.

He's so right about that pressure on age... you didn't even start your life and you already have to plan on finish it doing what society Ask you to do... Thanks to my past, my friends, thanks to youtube and all the VTuber I discovered, thanks to all the Nijisanji Waves and their songs, I'm woke up and I'm motivated as hell to follow my dream and get ride of my mental health issues ... I just start living my life and I'm proud for still being alive and able to go on !

I’m 17, turning 18 this year, and im doing online school for a small mix of year 11 and 12 subjects. Its scary. I never wanted to be that kid that got “held back” or anything, i always thought of myself as capable and intelligent. I tried for so, so long to keep up, but I couldnt, and I’ve missed years worth of learning because of it. I got diagnosed with autism last year, which helped a lot because now I know im not stupid or lazy, I just work differently. It also feels a bit hopeless because I’m never going to have the “normal” life i thought I’d have. All my peers are graduating at the end of this year. They’re getting in relationships, learning to drive, drinking alcohol, getting good grades, making friends. Ive spent most of the last two years in my bedroom. I tried normal school a few years ago, and I made some friends. They were the outcasts, they’d been bullied and were alternative and just like me. But even then, I felt worthless because all of my struggles came from within me, and I had no reason to be struggling, so I cut them out of my life. I would say I have two true friends now. Which im happy with, i love them, and I’m not the kind of person that needs social interaction regularly. But I compare myself so much and it hurts. My best friend is moving to another country at the end of the year, and my other best friend lives in another state. I think I’m scared of being left behind. But.. realising I have different needs has helped. I’ve gone 16 years with no support, so of course I’d be falling behind. I have time. I’m still young. Even if it takes me an extra two years to graduate, thats still impressive, because if things were different I probably would have dropped out and wouldnt even be here. I have value, I have so much I want to do in life. I want to draw, I want to make a game, I want to play guitar and bass, I want to stream, I want to play games with my friends, I want to dye my hair, I want to go for a walk and breathe in the fresh air. School is important, but its not everything. This video made me realise that I’m a person first, and a student second, maybe even third or fourth lol. I do not have to sacrifice everything for school. Yes, I will continue working hard at school, but I come first. The education system has failed me thus far so I have to rely on myself more. Over the summer holidays I felt so whole, I worked on so many projects and learned so much. I made bonds stronger. I need to fix my priorities. Im going to work hard to live the life I want to live.

I'm only 1 min into the video and I cried. It feels so devasted to hear something like that even though it's true.

He's so right. I'm 24, and I wanted to be a special education teacher. Family and friends all talked me out of it. I got my 4 year degree at age 20 and regretted not doing what I wanted. I ended up going back to school at age 22 and am happy with my job now at 24! I turned it around, but at the same time, I should've trusted myself to begin with

little vent I needed to hear this as someone who just turned 18 about a month ago. I assumed by the time I turned 18 I had to give up a lot of things in my life and just focus on school and college. 18 is the adult age where I am from so I figured I had to have everything sorted out by now (what college I'll go to, what I want to be, etc.). I gave up doing things I enjoy just to focus on school. I enjoy creative writing and literature but I was told I could not get anywhere in it and that I wont make money off of it. So I went into Science because I was told that I should be a doctor. I felt so disheartened to hear that because I genuinely enjoyed writing and I love literature so much. Science is interesting but, I'm not as passionate in it as I am for literature. I just wanted to make my parents proud and to finally sort my life out, even if it's not the life I wanted. After listening to Mysta, I'm not gonna lie, I actually cried. I realized I can take my time and I shouldn't just think that by the time I turn 18 I should have everything sorted out. I still have a long way ahead of me. I still have some time to do what I want and figure out what I want to be.

I remember whenever my mom ask me why I am spending so much money on things "I can't eat" or "unnecessary", but she don't understand that those things are what brings me joy. If I have 4500 pesos a month for food money, it was fine for me to spend 3500 pesos to purchase a book I really like and be left for 1000 pesos a month for food which is like 32 pesos a day (which is a really low budget). It is not that I am prioritizing my wants and making my needs suffer. It is just that food is a basic necessity, I eat food to stay alive, I wouldn't die if I eat just a cup of rice and a vegetable dish per meal, it still meet my minimum. If that book can entertain me then I am willing to pass eat outs on restaurants or fast foods. We don't live our life just for the "physiological needs". We eat to stay alive but we are not alive to eat. We breathe to stay alive but we are not alive to breathe. People don't live their life just to execute the necessities to stay alive, we actually stay alive for our wants, to fulfill a dream, to spend time with our family, to do the things we love.

here comes a real man

I'm almost 21 and cried listening to his words, man I am so lost rn and don't even know what I want to do... I hope it will all work out soon :(

Gosh, watching this almost makes me want to cry because it really reflects how I’ve been feeling for a while now. I have little to no passion for what I’m majoring in now, and I feel really confused with life in general, but Mysta’s words feel so reassuring. I’m sure a lot of us felt really comforted by him too.

You know, this actually made me cry, because I feel pressured to already know what I want to know and what I want as a career and major. I don’t know. I dropped out of college because I didn’t have a clear idea of what I was studying for, idly turning inca couple of homeworks while having a flooding feeling of depression that I couldn’t share with anyone, yes my parents listened to me, but I felt bad for not continuing my study, and being honest, I for a while felt really good that I did, but it’s back, the feeling of “I must study / go to college and figure out what I want to be”, it’s just a pressuring sensation within myself.

Teacher didn’t have a job to tell their student to stop if their goal seem miserable. Teacher have a job to help them walk closer to their goal as far as they can do. What a shame

A little vent... Watching this video and reading the comments made me tear up a little bit, because it made me feel a little less alone and hopeless. I'm in my 3rd year of uni, studying to be a teacher, which is the career I decided to pursue since I was 13 y/o. Now I'm 20 and not even sure if I will do well in that environment. These two last years of online classes seriously killed part of the passion I believed I had at some point, as well as me overthinking all of the difficult aspects of teaching. This year will be my first one attending face-to-face classes and I'm really nervous. I seriously want to believe that this new modality will help me discover if I really enjoy this career or not. I also want to do all the things I used to love before entering uni, like singing or drawing, two of my biggest hobbies that I abandoned for a while because of me being too focused on passing my exams and not wanting to do a thing. Everytime Mysta talks about his own personal stuff feels so refreshing and warm, it seriously makes me want to give him a big hug, not only because he deserves all the recognition and love he receives, but also for being a safe place to think about myself and what I want for me and my life :') what a king he is 👑🧡

Mysta is the type of friend we all need!! Glad I'm part of this community!!

Long post ahead.. I took up a bachelor in college that I never liked a single bit just because my family dictated me to take it. If I don't take it, they just not gonna let me study at all. It's all or nothing. 😅 take it or leave it. I wanted to get into music production, or culinary or fine arts back then. But my family just disagree with all of it and made me take up Information Technology because it is "in demand".. But after I graduated it's like I never learned anything. 😅 they wasted money on me and I wasted my 4 yrs only to not be able to use what I studied because I fuckin hate it. I wish they'd just let me do what I am passionate about back then. I could've been somewhere now.. Especially culinary.. I wanted to work on a cruise ship as chef.. But they're reasoning to me is that " you can learn to cook at home." 🥴 haha it sucks. Also I am from Philippines.. And it's a family pressure thingy that's why it happened. I studied 4yrs and ended up in a call center job that I also hated so much. 😅 now, 10 years later.. I'm almost at my 30s and I am struggling in still trying to start to do what I am truly passionate about. And because of that, I feel like I am running out of time. I had a mental breakdown months leading to my 28th birthday. I am lucky enough to have some amazing supportive ppl who shared their experience and struggle with me. Like over a hundred of ppl Telling me that "i am on this age and i still don't really know what i am doing at all." And such.. It helped me a lot. Yes I am still feeling like shit about getting old but I think I can manage. If you made it to the end of my comment.. Thank you. And a lot of the ppl who recommended me the movie TICK TICK BOOM on Netflix.. And I saw it and totally hit me to the core. I feel like time is running out and I am turning 30 soon.. It's crazy and it's giving me anxiety.. If you are feeling the same.. I recommend you watch the show too.. And dig a little deeper for the story of the writer of Tick Tick Boom, Jonathan Larson. His story is inspiring and he never gave up on his dream of becoming a world class playwright author and musician. He's amazing... 💛 you got this, guys.. Pls never give up on your dreams!

I would kill to have someone like him in my life it would genuinely be so nice :(

i kinda didn't know Mysta had talked about this before,because i have never watched this stream before,what he is saying is very true

I’m going to be 25 this year and I still don’t have everything figured out. Far from it actually. The pressure from society that sets these standards as soon as you graduate from high school is ridiculous and really takes a toll on you mentally. I might still live at home but I’ve been able to get into cosplaying and indulge myself in makeup which is so much fun. (Totally didn’t get teary eyed typing this)

I feel so sad watching this video. Im literally so late on watching this. Im 14 year old who has been thinking about making music and art. And I can relate to what he's saying.

Lately in school, I have been becoming worse of a student in my opinion, I'm less motivated, I don't pay attention, and I'm always drawing. I still got grades over 85, but I don't think that will last long. During Spring Break, I haven't been doing anything, I found Luxiem that week and it made me so happy to watch them, but I wasted so much time watching them, that I was doing my homework last minute. It makes me feel more useless that I don't have anything I'm actually good at, I really enjoy drawing, playing piano and something else I forgot, but I'm only okay at those, I don't know where I'm heading towards in life, I'm kind of just still living to see how far it goes, I guess. I've been chasing acceptance and grades this whole time instead of my dreams, that I forgot what I'm living for. lol.

This hit so hard, I'm in tears haha. And mind you, I'm way older than the ages he's mentioned here. Mysta speaking facts huhuhuu. luv him. Also, that eye roll ish at 9:09 haha

timestamp for myself 7:32

I agree with Mysta like yes people will say you need to find a job so you can start making money but like the earlier u find a main job youre gonna be stuck in that job for a really long time lets say you can still do this do that but for most cases youre gonna be so busy and focused on that job you cant do any other stuff you want in your life Im not saying all people experience that because some people get really lucky but most people experience that kind of stuff I dont really know how to say it properly but yall get the point

I really appreciate him saying this as I am going into a field where I know I won’t make much but I’ll genuinely enjoy it. People have told me multiple times, “oh well you won’t make a lot of money doing that,” or “this field really needs people right now so they’ll pay more,” or “you’re smart so why are you doing that?” That’s not the point though. I wish to pursue a career I am genuinely passionate about and nothing will stop me. As long as I make enough to live comfortably, I don’t need to make a lot.

i cried watching this. thank you so much it gave me lot of things

Damn I'm crying it's so deep it hurts I know you're not going to read it lmao* but I literally spend every day of my teenage years wondering what I should do when this is over I'm scared where I'll be thinking if maybe I'm wasting important years of my life and the mere fact of failing scares me, of losing people because I'm not good enough at certain things, of not being happy and meeting the expectations of many people despite that my efforts to improve feel useless to me that makes me feel so useless, I met nijinsanji not long ago and I think that apart from the goofy moments and the dynamics between his live shows, the experience certainly comes to you marked with the one who talks to you and gives you their life advice (you can call it that), I know about mysta and the situations he faced before joining the company and I am so grateful that he at certain times you of certain to "reality check and reason about what you are doing" has really helped me a lot, I love him so much and I got to the point where I start to overcome some aspects little by little thanks to him and luxiem

Thank you Mysta, hereally is a sweetheart

Gosh, This clip is going to change my life forever THANK YOU MYSTA

tw: vent? so... i'm at last grade in hight school right and going to left it in already 2 months and... i have no idea what to do in the future. i don't have any hobby or smth like that (actually i've a felling like i've never experienced how does it feel to be passionate abt smth) don't feel like making friends and so on. a lot of people was saying to me like "just do it what is your problem??" or "everyone has smth that they like and is interest in". but... idk i'm so tired (hello overthinking)... just tired of been existing bruh. where did my stamina go? this Mysta's speach means a lot for me but first i need to find a hobby at this point. (english isn't my native language so i'm sorry for any mistakes. feel free to correct me)

I am a med student I want to drop it bc I am not a hard working person My family tells me that u should continue everyone one wants to get in a med school U made it. u are in u should continue to study. It's not my thing I don't like it Idk what to do i don't feel anything I couldn't enjoy life without saying oh sh!t I have a work to do I was worried all the time still haven't experienced being relaxed I haven't experienced my youth I feel so bad I want to go back

this coming from a man who throws his used tissues on the floor and leaves food to mold in the oven he's like that stereotype of a wacky old wise man in a cartoon

The hardest thing when you are 20 is choosing you path and it is absolutely true that you should not rush into a job just because you are an adult... it's in your 20s that you can experiment and look for what you really wanna do in the future ! I hope Mysta will experiment more music wise like he wanted to do now that he is a Vtuber he has that opportunity !

10:12 ah this part is such a huge thing on facebook art community, other artists think a sudden advice about someone who just wanted to show their work is something that they *should* take and improve. I don't wanna say forced, but it's *like* forcing them to improve. On the other hand, some artists also think that advices should come from other artists when the artist wants it itsel, in which i agree. Let someome enjoy and slowly improve on what they love to do, that is how you grow up with love. Like sjfjsjjefjjsjejdjsjej just let them post the shit theyre proud of 😭 who the fuck are you? 😭

Thanks for clipping this. I didn't develop any passions or hobbies in my life because I didn't have any motivation whatsoever. I wanted to be a game developer, but my dream was crushed by someone telling me what game design was. I'm almost 30 and I feel like I wasted my life by not taking in any hobbies or skills.

As someone who is in my early twenties, he's absolutely right. I spent so much time and money on a miserable degree that "made sense" to others. It was such a bad time that I still haven't finished the degree because it was never what I wanted to do. It always sounded nice in conversation or made my parents "proud" that I was taking those classes, but I can't even use that knowledge. So do what works for *you* and stop trying to use others' expectations and opinions to guide *your* life.

it feels like I'm having a heart-to-heart talk with him and i relate to him and his words so much that it somehow gives me comfort too,, im proud of mysta, he he became such a bigger person

I really love him when he’s talking about something serious I do believe just do whatever you pursue to, continue whatever you are more passion about, at least try it out You may end up getting failed, but this does not mean you’re failure or your life is entirely failed Thinking back to my early 20ish, it’s sooooo young to try out something to fail something to do something whatever you want!! Especially 20ish age, it’s okay for you to fail because you still have time to recover!

Generations won’t understand generations, but life can understand life.

Que ganas de abrazar a todos los que comentaron, creo que todos necesitamos uno

I might just cry because I am one of the younger audience and I dont know what to do. Either get rich because I dont want to ever depend on a person or do what i love and you know what I'll just do both somehow, I'll do what I want

holy fuck I really needed to hear this right now,

Mysta is such a king

i don't even know why im crying while listening to him. damn

24 and have experienced this fresh out of having a hard time at my first full time job. Now doing a related part time job and pursuing whatever the fk I want. Mysta is SO SO right!!

I almost cry 😭❤️

Imagine if Mysta and his friends can normalize RL conversation etiquette into the internet like holy shit the world will be a better place.

i didn’t know that I will cry after this… 😧

man this made me ugly cry

💓💓💓

Me 16 watching this: 🙃

I have a friend who thinks her life needs to be complete before age of 30 or else she ain't gonna have a good life. She needs to be married have kids and all that, meanwhile im sitting here like "Tf you on about your life is basicly over at 30?". I find most things boring so i also can't think of any job i want for my future. This however can lead me to think "Oh god i don't have anything to do, im gonna be a failure, everyone has something they can or want to do meanwhile im stuck (in the abyss) thinking about whatever the hell i want to do".

Im a young guy that probably not know any better and its cool that he speaks out on that carefree atitude especially for people like me. On the whole advise andy part, I kinda disagreed there and you can see it in me writing this whole comment to begin with. I just don't think you should be that deflective to advise. Feels out of touch to be that mean to them cause when I say advise to someone who makes a mistake and maybe they dont know it and want them to improve on it. But as someone who has not done proper content creation, maybe i just dont get it, if anyone does have something to say on my comment feel free to reply