He who knows how to be Poor knows Everything

In today's materialistic world, being poor is the worst thing that can happen to you. Being educated, being moralistic and being principled amount to almost nothing if you are poor. There are no opportunities to come out of that quagmire.

Someone who has been through this and has somehow overcome the mountain of difficulties, would possess incredible amounts of determination, will and belief in his ability. Such talent is rare but often results in producing the greats.

Being poor teaches you time management, how to make the most of your time to survive. It teaches you adaptability, how to adjust to the extremes of living conditions. It pushes you to extend your boundries and grow farther. It makes you emotionally and mentally strong.

Someone who has been facing defeat after defeat but still gets up everytime to face adds so many facets to his personality. You learn only from your mistakes. If you have never faced defeat, it would be hard to survive.

To relate to my own life I have seen people around me looking for jobs, struggling for them. While I consider myself lucky enough to have got it the easier way. I realise that I along with everyone else who has had it the easy way, is a step behind those who had to persevere to get it and some who are still persevering are the toughest of the lot. Those who have already been through this may face a lot in life with their chins up while for the likes of us it might be to much to handle. A lot in life is beyond what books teach you.

The evidence lies in the fact that two-thirds of the world's billionaires earned their riches from the scratch and a half of them were dropouts. The rich have all to lose, the poor have all to gain. Russia's richest man, Roman Abramovich, was an orphan. Apple's iconic Steve Jobs was adopted. Li Ka-shing , the world's richest man of East Asian descent, had to work for 16 hours a day, in a plastic manufacturing company to shoulder the responsibility of his family after the death of his father. The world's wealthiest novelist, J.K. Rowling, was on welfare raising her little girl when her agent called to tell her that Bloomsbury would publish her book about an adolescent wizard named Harry Potter.

All this indicates that by being middle class we become mediocre. The lows of life only helps us become better in life. It isn't education, marks or degrees that give you success, it's what you learn from life itself that will lead you to success.

"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness."