You do not need to have a mentor before you can become successful in life. There are many successful people in life that does jot have a mentor.
Some people only like after a role model and they may want to be like such people and work towards it.
But know that success is not about having a mentor or looking after someone as a role model. It is about how smart you are in achieving successes. Opportunity and exposure are also very important.
thats true, making it in life is not about having a mentor, it is still possible for one to be successful without having a mentor. some people believe success is in the hands of a mentor. well, it is all good if one is lucky to have a mentor in life . their is a saying if no one motivates you, then motivate yourself, same thing about success in life. if you have no one to put you through to become successful in life, then the only choice is for you to be able to make success yourself.
success is mainly achieved by personal lifestyle and habit, development and if one is unable to work on these, then i think it will be very difficult achieve success in life no matter who you have as mentor.