It doesn’t matter if you’re not tall enough or not talented enough, it doesn’t matter if you have famous parents or never finished school. It doesn’t matter where you’re from, when you started, how you got here, or where you’re going.

It doesn’t matter if you fail as long as you keep trying. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you’ve made as long as you keep getting better. It doesn’t matter if you don’t hold office hours or sleep in everyday.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t do it how everyone says it’s supposed to be done. It doesn’t matter if everyone says it can’t be done.

Nothing matters except for the way you do things.

Everyone else had something in their way that they had to overcome. They were too short or too slow or too old or too young. They were too privileged or not privileged enough. They had to push all that aside and prove themselves to someone else.

Everyone else was just getting started once, just like you are now. There was a place for them and there’s a place for you.