Action is eloquence. We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire. Follow your bliss. Don't pay interest on troubles you haven't borrowed. You don't have to suffer to be a poet.
Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Read Reviving Ophelia. In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for. My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. Less advice, and more hands.