Excellence

Cody Goslar
4/29/08
Excellent-ness

Excellence is derived from the word excel and to excel is to advance in one area of expertise. You see I feel that excellence is just a word to symbolize how well someone does anything to me personally if I had to say that anything at all had achieved excellence I would say the human race. You see the human race and everyone who can read this is a form of excellence our ability to adapt and to adjust to all the situations we have been put though since our existence on this planet is unimaginably excellent, say I were to put a man in an arena or large coliseum if you will, and have him battle a creature with claws and razor sharp teeth, imagine if you will a human battling a tiger, now at first glance most people would obviously choose the tiger, but because of the human mind and its wit and cunning it may make a spear or a weapon of some sort and use its environment to somehow over come this beast, how amazing is it to think that long long ago “cave men” took down gigantic creatures over the size of elephants and not just collected the meat but learned to use every single piece of the animal to help in its survival, this is excellence, to start with nothing and become something great at least we used to be a great example of excellence, up until we created war… In war we do nothing but destroy the enemy.
We waste so much time and effort that could be used on something more valued through out the entire world such as a cure for disease or the ability to run vehicles off of something that will not destroy our planet and all of its majesty , but instead we waste our lives with killing each other and using our resources to destroy one another without trying to straighten things out amongst one another.
I mean look at the continent of Africa its had civilizations on it longer than any other place in the world, but instead of working together to create something excellent or beautiful the decided to destroy one another over something as miniscule as land. Entire genocides have been accomplished just because of a personal grudge between two cultures.
Some may argue that by defeating the opposing army is that not showing that you resign in excellence over the other culture? Well yes but this is where we go back to the fact that everyone has a different opinion of excellence it shows that excellence is a state of mind a thought an opinion. Therefore just as last time I leave my essay as the question what is Excellence is a definable object but more of an opinion, there is no definite definition and so I leave you, goodbye, farewell and thanks for all the fish.