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Whatever you do, don't take advice from me.
But also the choices are rarely as permanent and personal as they appear. The person you are can easily shine through them. So don't let any of the glorified-psuedorandom rougelike elements sour your outlook for the world. Gloomy pessimism will only hurt the people who matter and stick around because all the losers and jokers you don't align with are going to find their way out of your life anyway; you'll never have to care what they think about you or otherwise.
If I were you I'd iterate quickly over things I find interesting (hoping I left high school with a good base of things that are plausibly interesting) knowing there's an 80% chance of it not being it but if I'm inexplicably drawn to something over and over or very deeply immediately going all in on it.
The goal being that I'm surrounded by people who I'm connected to deeply doing something I truly like doing watching each other grow old while laughing.
If you're like me you'll spend over a decade wrestling with "well, what do you want?" to the point where it'll surprise and complicate you when it actually shows up.