Poverty: A prerequisite to succeed in life?

Lisa Kelly - trucker extraordinaire

After the recent passing of Steve Jobs, his touching meaningful speech at Stanford had been making its rounds again on radio, social media and blogs. And everybody now knows about his unwed mother giving him up for adoption and how she reluctantly signed the adoption papers after months after she discovered that the intended adopted parents were not university graduates, as in her mind, only graduates become successful in life. And how he had to travel 7 miles to have free Hare Krsna food! We have also heard of the story of Lincoln Murthi in previous blogs about his roller-coaster escapades from the clutches of poverty to succeed in life. And the list just keeps on going, from AJ Kalam all the way to God knows who!
Just the other day, my buddy and I were discussing whether Steve Jobs would have still done what he did for the computer world and Apple if he indeed had been adopted by a lawyer or a doctor. Would he still have brought in changes in the IT world if he had grown up in the luxury of American life?

Recently I managed to catch the concluding episode of a realimentary (reality documentary) series on History Channel named IRT: Deadliest Roads where truckers were sent on assignments to transport sensitive cargoes along the scary roads in the Himalayas amidst the harassment of the horn blaring happy irritating courtesy challenged Indian drivers. Surprisingly, a rose (a petite 28 year old) emerged victor among the thorns (big beer bellied mustachioed bald tattoo displaying monster truckers) after the final tasks. She braved the icy mountain roads to supply aviation fuel for helicopters in a God forsaken place in the Himalayas!
In her last departing prophetic dialogue in that episode, Lisa Kelly, 28, the only North American trucker to have driven the amount of miles in that part of the world had to say, "We have to be stretched in order to grow!"