Excuses No More by Megan

Excuses No More by Megan - November 2013 Scholarship Essay

Have you ever heard the saying “there is no good excuse” or “it is only hard if you make it hard”? Well, did you happen to hear that from a guardian or an elderly? If so, I would listen to them, because they are right. In high school I learned that there is no good excuse. Excuses are only for those who wish to set a roadblock in their own path of learning. I also learned that since nothing is impossible that nothing can be hard, because hard would be impossible.

We as humans create excuses to hide our own mistakes and we wish to not be liable for those mistakes. However instead of giving an excuse as to why something is not done or not done right in the first place, that it would be much simpler to just find a way to do it and get it done. As a high school student with block scheduling, you tend to get in the habit of procrastinating. Then when it is time to turn in an assignment you have to think fast of a “reason”, or excuse, for why you did not have an assignment to turn in. As I think about it now, why do we make excuses? It is not like the excuses accomplish anything, or change the circumstances. They are simply a cover up to hide a flaw done by our own self.

The same thing applies to categorizing something as hard. What makes a task “hard”? Is it that we do not have the materials to do it? Or that we are tired and just do not want to? Whatever that task may be, it is not like we can not go out of our way to accomplish it. We have all of the resources and materials we need to get the job done. We just have to fetch them. Someone who wants to know what they are ill with does not need to have a Bachelors in Science to find out, they know that they can simply read a “How to Take Care of Yourself” book, or even just go to the doctor and find out that way.

All in all, at the end of every day, I remind myself that there is no reason to leave anything unaccomplished because I live in a country where we are blessed with the opportunity of receiving the knowledge we need to do such things like accomplishing tasks. The information may not be directly under our nose or on the tip of our tongue, but it is there. We just have to seek it. My high school career has taught me this, and perhaps it is the best lesson I have learned. I certainly will use it for life!