Originally Posted by After Shock Media

I believe that everyone has some odds of being a success. If someone really thinks they have no chance at all then I doubt they would even try.

A situation is just that, a starting point for personal choices on your road to success. Some of course will use their situation as an excuse and others for motivation. The choice is up to the individual though.

Cliff notes of my life:
Born into poverty 34 years ago.
Grew up watching siblings and living off of welfare.
Parents divorced when I was eight, father got custody in CA. So you can imagine how bad my mother was.
As a young youth only money I saw was the money I went out and earned.
Many times for christmas my father gave me one of his possessions as my gift.
I would spend my 13th birthday in the hospital becoming paralyzed.
Schools passed me upwards without meeting my requirements because they could not afford and did not offer adaptive PE classes.
Had to go with the HS equivalency test to get out of high school or I would need to take several years of PE and summer school PE.
Made a lot of money via my BBS.
Lost all of it and then some to an early Internet scammer.
I pay doctors and hospitals more than my house payments, yet I now own my house and well I still pay doctors and hospitals.
I refuse to quit and am always willing to fail as long as I fail in a big way.