It Is Not What You Achieved That Matters, It Is What You Had Overcome

It is not what you achieved that matters, it is what you had to overcome to achieve what you have achieved that makes you outstanding. That is the major difference between President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush.One was fathered by an immigrant father who abandoned him and was thus raised by a single mother with all the challenges involved, while the other was the son of a president raised by multimillionaire parents that doted him, in a family where even his  grandfather, Prescott Sheldon Bush was a US senator between 1952 and 1963 and an oil magnet. That is the difference between Bill Gates who dropped out of university to found Microsoft and in the process revolutionalise the computer age and Dr. Stephen Hawking who had to endure decades of suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis upon his arrival at Cambridge in 1962 for graduate studies at the age of 20 and from then onward has been suffering from a motor neurone disease, related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, that today(70 years old) he is almost entirely paralysed and communicates through a speech generating device and has despite this challenges risen to become arguably the greatest physicist alive today and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in United States. As I write, Hawking is still struggling to seat still on his wheel chair and battles to communicate, yet in all these challenges he has continuously managed to do his research and pull crowd of scientific minds and science enthusiasts everywhere he went around the world. What is your excuse? What are your challenges? Arise and Shine knowing that it is what you have to overcome that makes you the man and the woman that you are!