Post Number 5; Common App Essay

I tried to solve a problem, and my problem was, "Why is that person better than me at a given thing"

Let me explain, how come someone can write a better essay than me, how can someone run faster than me, how can a person have a better anything than me? I found a hint to my problem in New York City, when I was sitting on a bench with my family, I was only six years old. I saw this man walking by, he had everything it looked like, he had these really defined muscles in his arms and in his legs, an expensive watch, super handsome face, and this beautiful girl who was walking next to him; with whom he was having a fully engaged conversation with. Meaning no phones in their hands, nothing, just a real conversation.
I said to my mom, "wow, I want to be just like him, but better, I wonder how he did it." Of course being six it came out like "That guy is cool, how is he so cool?" And my mother jokingly questioned "why don't you ask?" I responded "But I'm scared." So my mom just said "Of what?" So I hopped off the bench, ran up behind him and tugged his shirt, then asked "Why are you so cool?" He simply answered me with the word "focus." I ran back to the bench and just thought "focus, focus, focus, focus, focus, I don't know what that word means." So again I turned to my mom and asked her what focus meant. She told me the definition, still didn't get it. I went and asked my teacher the next day at school, still didn't get it. I sat and sat thinking alone in my room, still didn't get it. Then I matured, around age nine I started to think a new way. Then suddenly I got it. Focus to me means- whatever you believe, whatever you're doing, you've got to be all in for it. An excuse to me is not "A reason or explanation put forward to justify a fault." It is a distraction from the focus you are fixated on, meaning it takes you away from the thing you want. Now in everything that I do, for example in school, if it's not my best work, it's not worth turning in. In sports, if it's not my best effort, I pull myself out of the game. I spend my life giving my all. If that means lazy people don't like me because they are my group partners and I push them to be the best, fine. Please get out of my group, because people in my group don't give excuses, they stay focused.  Same in sports, if you're not willing to improve at whatever cost, you're not worth the spot on the team.

So many times I hear "I can't because..." with a little motivation and focus, then you CAN. After I found the answer to this question I realized that if it was easy everyone would do it. If  having a beautiful face, perfect muscles, a 4.0 GPA, and a beautiful woman, was easy, everyone would have it, but it's not easy it requires focus. There are 86400 seconds in a day, 28800 of those seconds are spent sleeping, 3600 are spent eating, that leaves you 54000 seconds a day to be who you want to be. Focus, because every second counts.