Misconception about me

After a tiring run in the late evening (I've been trying to stay healthy since school started), I ran into my med buddy Shifana who was still staying late at school. We chatted for a while and somehow the conversation got to her assuming that my parents were well educated, successful and wealthy individuals. I know a lot of my current colleagues come from very privilegded backgrounds and I have no doubt in my mind that this has put them in an advantage in life. They not only have the strong financial support, but also the opportunity to learn and be inspired from their successful or highly educated parents. I on the other hand, come from a very solid middle class family (my dad an blue collar electrician and my mom a bank clerk for 35 yrs) and my parents didn't have a lot of education. My parents are very frugal still to this day (both my parents drive cars that are from the 80s and they probably have 800,000km between the both of them on their odometers). Though my parents lack a great education, I am so very lucky and grateful that they understand the value that is in education. I think that without this, I may not even be what I am today. Growing up, I didn't really have a personal role model or have my parents to look up to in terms of getting an understanding of high success and what it took to achieve it. I'm not saying my parents weren't great role models for me. They were hardworkers, very polite people and had strong and good values and I am very fortunate to have acquired that from them. The thing was that my parents were very happy being stable and didn't desire the need to go further with the lives and show the motivation and drive to climb higher. I had no idea how to be successful besides keeping my head down and working hard studying. The only role models I had that showed me success and motivation were strangely rappers in music videos (more on this later, a whole other story). I truly believed that the best chance I had at doing anything great in life was in an education. That's all I had to fall back on. At the end of the day, I'm not discreditting the hardwork and drive it took my colleagues to achieve what they have today and I'm not saying that I'm better than those who grew up in better circumstances than I did. I have total respect for all my colleagues and I have high regards for all of them. But I just want to tell the world how proud I am of myself and what I've accomplished to this day. I came from really having nothing (a very modest living), to having something which I never dreamed I could ever achieve in my lifetime. To me, being able to have a career that satisfies my personality and is financially rewarding at time same time is my American dream. Shifana probably was under the impression that I came from a wealthy background because I'm always dressed to impress. But looks can be misleading. People don't realize where I've been and what I've come from until they really get to know me.