I am a Determined, Ignorant, Different Person or am I crazy?

I'm 18 a guy I just Graduated High School and I start College now in January. I have to tell you first my background so you can understand where I come from. I was born in Cuba but came to Miami when I was 1 year old, I grown up in a bad neighborhood. Drugs, Gangs, Guns, and prostitutes everywhere you look, just for some reason when most of my friends choose Drugs and Hoes, I choose Sports and Acting. My parents divorced when I was 8 and I stayed with my mom, my mom was very successful in cuba and I always wanted to make her proud of me that I am different. I know she always says she is proud of me but that's her saying it because she loves me, I want her to say it because I did something incredible or Great. I was always obsessed with success and being number at everything, in school I always had straight A and I was always a popular guy because of my Acting and Sports. I was the captain at Baseball, Tennis, and Basketball. In Acting I was always the Lead Role, in school I graduated Salutatorian (#2) in a cl of 765 Students. See the one thing people never understood about me was that I wanted to be different I have a dream of being a Baseball Player or an Actor all my life. I wanted to do my life different then the usual: Birth, School, Graduate, Job, Get Married, Have Kids, then Die. I have had a lot of Girlfriends nothing serious so its whatever. There is nothing there I want to travel the world, Live my dream as an Actor, Win an Oscar, buy my mom a Ocean Side House, build a Charity for Cancer, and Build a special place for the Homeless to stay get treated for Drug and Alcohol Abuse. A lot of people say I'm aiming for a star that isn't even there, my mom does support me and I have tasted minor success in acting. Get the lead in the School and Church Plays, being picked to entertain the fans at the Marlins Games, I helped my Drama Teacher for 2 Months Entertaining her Cles and I was a star. So I want to feel that success be in the limelight, walk the red carpet, walk in the Oscars. Also I love acting because I get to see how people think and Act when I am portraying them. Do you think I should follow my heart or follow the usual? Do you think I'm crazy or different? or ignorant?