Every life has a story

At best we are all teachers, teaching the lessons we each have learned from life. Life throws us different challenges. Some of us learn through experiencing civil wars, riots, racial and gender discrimination and civil upheaval.
Others learn from growing up in impoverished environments, single parent households, drugs and alcohol addictions, domestic violence, parental negligence or going to prison. At some point a light bulb moment hits us and hopefully leads us to the point of our lives' success: deciphering the lessons learned from those challenges that life has thrown us.
These lessons are lessons we all reap a shared benefit from despite the fact that our human journey has been immensely different. Things such as resilience, humanity, patience, unbreakable sense of thrive and humility are all qualities we seek to learn and attain in our lives and it becomes our duty to teach these qualities to our fellow human beings once we learn them through the journeys of our lives.

There is a lesson to be learned from each experience, even if it feels extremely depressing and hard to get through. Success in my humble opinion is not becoming extraordinarily rich and famous and having a thriving career. Rather it is those moments that tremble your heart. The ones that plant an unshakable memory in your mind and take you to a happy place every time you recall them. Moments that make you feel grateful to be alive.

Those moments often derive from things one has done from the heart. At the end we're all connected emotionally as humans so when we help one another, we experience the same joys regardless of our differences and different backgrounds.
Therefore let life be a classroom that continuously teaches you valuable lessons. And then teach those that can benefit from your life's lessons because at best we're all teachers.