A MUST READ STORY: I stand on a pedestal

I spent my high school life living with my maternal grandma. this was necessitated by the demise of my parents. It was beautiful living in the family that cherished me. sometimes it wasn't as easy. My Grandparents depended on peasant farming and I added to the labor force of the family farm. 
During school holidays I would spend time in the field grazing the cattle whose number were diminishing with years. Sometimes i would be in the family garden weeding the maize and millet plantation. I could wonder what life would turn into years in future. 
My grandpa enrolled me in the local high school whose population was barely 50 students from form one to the fourth form. 
My eagerness was to pass exams and get the required university grade. I believed deeply that by passing and being a complete orphan, I was capable to get a sponsor to the university. So I hit the road, read books and studied hard. All I wanted was to get away from home, from hunger, from poverty and live in a place I would enjoy the opposite.
By end of exams, My heart leaped, there was cold in my stomach, my  throat swelled and I cried to the news that I couldn't attain direct university grade. At once I thought the curtains of my life fell right on my face. I had fallen with no one to lift me. The funny thing is that I was at the top of the Class2001.
Sometimes it is not being at the top of class that brings happiness but rather the achievement of the desired goals. From thence I learnt not to aim to be, or do better than someone but to do my best in my own way. We don't become happy by achieving what others haven't, but what we have in its insignificant form as it might seem to the world.
I had a choice to rewind the class but who would pay the school fees. Something in me could always tell me that I was better than that, that I was destined for huge things, that I was a master piece. But how could I get there?
The rest is history. I am giving back to the society by talking into their hearts wisdom that it taught me. Every human needs a motivator, an inspirational figure in their life. I stand on a pedestal and  pour ideas out to the world. I am doing this before I die so that I will say to the master whose piece I am that it is fine with my soul. I motivated the world.

In your position, you can do much more than you think. Don't limit yourself to the equivalence of your environment, your enemies and the naysayers. Break the rules. Pursue your passion relentlessly and unapologetically. Zig Ziglar said, " you were born to win, and to win you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win".