Excellence

Excellence! What is excellence? It could be a lot of different things it could be doing the best you can or never giving up and always trying to better at something or i beating everyone at the subject and getting a medal for your effort. The dictionary definition of the word is 1.the fact or state of excelling; superiority; eminence: his excellence in mathematics. 2. an excellent quality or feature.

Excellence one way is never giving up what you believe in no matter what is in you way. Whether it is Drill Instructors at boot camp. If you just keep trying pretty soon all there yelling will just go in one ear and out the other. All the marines that I have talked to said that looking back on it now boot camp was nothing. But anyway if you are playing video games and you are stuck on a level. Excellence is just keep trying and don’t give up you will get it sooner later and don’t cheat to get it cause if you don’t then the reward is so much better when you pass boot camp or passing that part on the video game.

It could also be doing the best at something or doing it better then everyone else. Let’s say you get a get the longest range shot in the shooting range or win a medal in a martial art tournament. If you win those you feel great like you are the best and that is excellence in my view. And no matter what no one can take that away from you ever. Yes people might bet your range in another platoon but you did it for your platoon. Yes people might beat your take down score but you will always have that medal.

That is what I think excellence is it an opinion. Its your own mind thinking that you are the best whether it be by getting thought boot camp, betting that level that you never thought you could, shooting the best at the range and being honored for that, or just plain getting a medal to prove to your self that you are excellence.