It doesn't matter where you START. It matters where you END UP.
So life is unfair. Yes. We have established that. Life will ALWAYS be unfair. And chances are, it has been unfair to YOU. In some way, in some manner it has been unfair. I don't know your life but I'd imagine some parts of it are just plain UNFAIR. You live in a terrible neighborhood with bad schools and bad neighbors. You don't have a mother. Or your father is in jail. You're overweight or can't read well. You don't have nice clothes. Who knows? I don't know the specifics but I'm sure something about your life is unfair.
Well, that's the bad news. But there is no bad news without good news, now is there? The good news is that your situation, your circumstances are merely a starting point. The first step towards a better future. A nicer neighborhood. A family where BOTH mother and father live under the same roof. Newer clothes. A well-stocked library. Whatever a better future looks like to you, your current circumstances are just the first step towards it.
(Maybe THIS is where you want to end up)
My father grew up on a farm. A dairy farm. In Realitos, Texas. Now I challenge you to even FIND that place. He milked cows at 4:00 am. Every day. School days, holidays, summer days. Every. Day. As you could probably guess, it was terrible. It's difficult for me to describe the place. It was a ranch on a several acres. Lots of cows. Their house had no central heat and air. Only a few rooms had a window ac unit. The floors were dirty. With dirt from outside. Never really gets clean. Furniture as old as the dirt. TV maybe had a few channels. No remote. No video games. No fresh food. Government provided some food for his family. Staples such as butter and peanut butter and bread and cheese and imitation ice cream. And the rats. Tons and tons of rats. When we would visit, we could hear them scratching the walls at night. Sheesh. Creepy. Oh, and they were HUGE. Like small dogs. I can not imagine growing up in those conditions.
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(Every day, milking cows)
He had a mother and father and had 4 older brothers. His parents made no money and, looking at this situation objectively, there's no reason to believe life was going to get any better. But his mother was OBSESSED with her sons succeeding. Every day and night she HAMMERED them to study, to learn, to get better, to DO better then THEY did. And they listened. They hated it, but they obliged. They did as she DEMANDED. And from that dairy farm, 3 out of the 5 sons became doctors. The other became a Marine and the other a very successful businessman succeeding in various business ventures.
(3 out 5 became doctors, wow)
So it CAN be done. You can take that unfair situation and let it MOTIVATE you to get to the NEXT level. If my father from a cow farm can do it, then certainly YOU can do it. I mean, why not? He grew up DIRT poor. On a farm no less. Milking freakin' COWS!!! You have GOT to be in a better situation than that. So essentially, there is NO EXCUSE for you, my friend.
(My parents grew up DIRT poor)
Now YOU might not have someone OBSESSED with you succeeding like his mother, and I get that. It might be difficult to get motivated with no one there pushing you. But, hey, that's what you have YOU for. If you don't have it, you have to MAKE it. YOU have to be the one OBSESSED. YOU have to be DEMANDING. YOU have to be the one EXPECTING excellence and demanding action. Demanding you GET BETTER DAILY. So again, there is no excuse here. You have the POTENTIAL to do it all.
Is it going to be easy? No. Nothing in life worth having is going to be easy. Is it going to be overnight? No. As we all should remember, Rome was not built in a day. But it CAN happen. And YOU can MAKE it happen.
So stop whining. Stop being upset at the unfairness of life. Stop complaining. What has that ever done? NOTHING. So stop all the negativity and START doing something about it. Remember, it is not where you come from but where you end up that matters.
Now get to work.