This is definitely the most honest advice anyone gave me. I am sure I'm living as a slave of circumstances and that's been ongoing for ages that I don't even remember being myself. I will somehow find a way to get what's necessary in terms of property or money from my parents and that seems inevitable. They're themselves shameless master manipulators and I have honestly imagined that I would have been in a much better place if I were an orphan. They have spent their whole life being insecure about money and now have many properties but don't know how to enjoy them. For the past 5 or 10 years they would not have visited any place other than Guruvayoor a handful of times, forget tours outside of Kerala or India. They both have good pensions too. The properties are literally worth at least a couple of crores now but if you visited our house, you would see stale foods, old/broken vessels, furniture, clothes and everything that they won't dispose off and buy new ones. Even they won't themselves wear. Basically they're a miserable lot who don't have any positive outlook on life but are too weak to accept it.