How often do you find people who were middle class and suddenly exceptional? I don't know many stories like that. Or at least those aren't the stories that are told.
People who do great work of any kind - academic, in the arts, good or bad, are often people who came from no where, or people who had a bunch of money to begin with, or people whom no-one really noticed all through school.
With people having money, it's understandable that they'd be able to put in as much time and resources as they want into any problem, hobby, or desire and let it take its own shape. The only thing they'd probably have to work on is the motivation to work.
When people come from a lower income class of society, they have the time and motivation, and not the resources. So when they act on their motivation, maybe some of them get a mentor, maybe some of them gain recognition through open platforms, and slowly they are able to pursue things that they like, and spend more and more time in that direction. And because that is what they have done all their life, they get somewhere. Like an actual concrete somewhere. (Or nowhere at all, in the unlucky cases.)
But when you are middle class, or an average student, I think most of us are too busy trying to maintain our current status. Our current quality of life. We have the time, resources, and motivation. And it seems stupid that most of us would not know what we want to accomplish, or have dreams and goals. We should be the ones who become 'someone'. The ones who do 'great things'...
But what we don't have is the ability to say "Fuck it, I'm going all in". Because we have SO MUCH to lose if things go wrong.
When things going wrong stops affecting us, when failure stops affecting us, and when we start having faith in our ability to figure things out... when we care selectively... when we let go of our need to know what is next... we are truly free.
And that's something to think about.
Love,
Kanksha
