Who would have thought?

A couple of weeks ago I posted a picture on facebook that simply said "If I died tomorrow what is one thing that you would always remember about me?"

I was overwhelmed with the few comments that people left. I didn't care that a ton of people didn't comment on it. The few that did left some very heartfelt responses and a couple of them just made me laugh (which a person could always use no matter what). One in particular caught me off guard. A girl, who is a friend of my sister's, left  a comment on how driven I am and how she looks up to me for that.

I've never thought of myself as driven. I just saw myself doing the things that I needed to do to provide me and my future family with the life that I thought we would deserve. Now, looking back, I guess I kind of am. I strove to do my best in school, even before I graduated high school.
I worked to do my best when it came to music too. College, well I'm not really proud of how I did in college. With that being said I should be damn proud because not too many people can work full-time and go to school full-time and not make it out a little battered and scarred. Then, I went on to get my masters while working my first "grown-up" job after college. Yet again, here I was going to school full-time but the college work was just part-time but man did it take up any free time that I thought I would have! Now, I've been working on passing my CPA exam for over a year and I won't let it beat me...not yet.

So I guess I am driven. Driven by the thought of having a better life than what anyone would have ever thought I would have. I was told multiple times growing up that I wouldn't amount to anything. Well, who looks like the idiot now??