Abby is a brilliant boy who was born without either silver or plastic spoon. He was born with no spoon at all as his father is a vaucanicer while his mother a janitor in one of the care homes in town where elderly people are being taken care of.
Despite working all day and night and taking all the available shifts, his parents could bearly foot all the necessary bills because they live from hand to mouth. Church mice can be said to be living a life of luxury compared to them.
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Abby was determined to acquire education even if the going tends to be hard. He believed in one of the quotes of Aristotle which says “The roots of education is bitter but the foots are sweet”.
He struggled through elementary school because they live in a rural area with no government schools so he had to attend one of the cheapest or low budget private schools around. As cheap as the tuition of the school was, his parents could hardly pay his fess and feed him to make him stay in school throughout a term. The advantage he had was that he was always ahead of his classmates academically.
After spending six years off and on in elementary school, Abby was supposed to be amongst the graduants of his school but he could not and the factor responsible was money. His class teacher had to invite his parents to encourage them to pay but she had to leave them to their fate when they explained their situation to her.
On getting home, Abby's mummy told him about her conversation with his teacher. To her surprise, Abby said mummy and daddy, don't sweat it, it's just elementary school's graduation, I will have a better party by the time I finish from high school I believe things would have gotten better by then.
His parents where amazed and at the same time surprised about the way he took the news of not going to take part in the graduation party with his classmates. He knew his worth so he was not bothered at all.
By the time he finished from junior high school, he won a scholarship that took care of all his academic needs from senior high school one till the end of his first degree. After years of struggling, late night library visit, endless research and classes, Abby graduated from Oxford University as the overall graduating student and got a good job.
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With the pay from the his new job, Abby's first mission was to change the living conditions of his parents and rewrite their story. After that he put some portion of his salary apart to be donated to orphanage and another portion went straight into investment. In his word he said “one who has teased poverty before will never wish it for his enemy.”
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Thanks for taking your time to read through, Yours truly 
