Clarissa Frias

                                           Defining Excellence in my Point of View

 

David Books in his essay “It’s Not About You” defines excellence as “It’s the things they did to court unhappiness”. My mom’s excellence is defined as her attending St. Edward’s University, being head president of AAIP Association, and also being the best at her job. My mom attending St. Edward’s University exhibits excellence to me which though she did not finish she did two years of university. Not only was she going to school but she had two full time jobs. Aside from that my grandma was sick so she has to take care of her and the household. My mom is also head president of the AAIP Association. She stared off with just attending the meetings with her excellence building they voted her president. She is the first Latina president from that association. The people from the association didn’t believed in her but she proved them wrong that anything is possible. Aside from being president from the association she is one of the top person from her job. My mom is property and causality underwriter. Till this day she is still taking classes and with those classes come testing. She does it to further her job major. With all the excellence that she has done and is doing I am able to attend college myself. My mom’s excellence pushes me to do the best and never give up. With seeing her I learned that you start from the bottom but you can always rise up no matter how low you start from. The way David Brooks defines excellence is a different way I define excellence. The way I define excellence is seeing my mom succeed. As Davis Brooks said is his article “ It’s excellence, not happiness, that we admire the most”. Those are the three ways I see excellence in my mom.