Standards

I understand that everybody has a type and I know that everybody has standards but do you ever feel like you have to either live up to somebody else's standard or have to lower your standards just so you think that you could be happy that way? because ever since I was little I feel like I always had to lower my standards because of what people thought of me and how I felt at that very moment in time just because I wasn't the tallest or the strongest or the fastest or on a cereal box or on TV....I always felt like I wasn't living up to my dad's standards or my mom's standards.... and it feels like I slowly but surely was lowering my standards just because of what I liked and what I didn't like and what I didn't like was what everybody else liked which was drinking and partying at smoking weed.... I'm not about that life and sure I might write about characters that do that type of stuff but I'm not really about that life. But anyway what about you?