Lot in Life

Growing up, adults will usually tell kids something along the lines that you can be anything you want. But as I'm getting older, I'm finding that while that may be true, it seems that odds do tilt a particular way. I've come across two particular cases lately.

First one is this guy from volleyball a couple months ago. I've only met him a couple of times, but have become relatively good friends with a friend of his. He grew up in a fairly ghetto area of the city. From what I've heard, he's had a tough upbringing. So what's happened to him? He got his girlfriend knocked up, who happens to be crazy emotional. He works at a call centre in technical customer service, the girlfriend is a stay at home mom. From the sounds of it, she's not particularly qualified to do anything anyway. The couple had their daughter, who is now about two years old and they're barely scraping by.

Case two is of this girl I went to university with. You could say she came from and upper class upbringing, growing up in a richer area of the city, going to one of the, if not most highly touted public school in the GTA. She just got married, saw the photos on facebook. Had quite the glamourous wedding, I think she married a lawyer or a business person of some sort.

Now I have not mentioned anything about either person's personality above, as to keep this as unbiased as possible, and only measurable facts.

Sure you can beat the statistics, but I can't somehow shake the feeling that most of the time, people are put on a particular path pretty early that is really tough to shake.