Walking Is Still Honest

What Does it mean to come from something? Does it change your perspective? Could you still accomplish anything anyone else has ever managed to do under a different set of circumstances. I dont know if i could. All my heroes were disenfranchised youth. They grew up rough in broken families, they had a reason to be something more. They deserved to be. Where do you get that sense of purpose. Well not a sense of purpose but of direction. I dont think i could do what any them did. I'd like to think i could. Sell a pint of blood to make rent, spend the nite livin on the streets when you have to. They made themselves what they are now and im really wondering if starting out with nothing is what gives you the tools you need to achieve everything.
Could poverty ever seem so appealing?