How many times have you let someone in a position of authority tell you want you should or should not do? Your teacher, your peer, your boss, your parents. None of these people really hold the power over your life, you do. I believed for a long time I would amount to nothing because a teacher told me that. Once I realised that that teacher was only a person no different than you or I ( well apart from being negative) I knew he was wrong. I didn't become who I am to prove him wrong, I did it to prove me right.