Have you ever heard the saying, “You don’t have to be good at something to be great, you just have to be obsessed”?
When I first heard it, it honestly made no sense to me because I think, to be great, you must first be good. But I don’t think that’s what the saying is trying to convey. I think it’s trying to say that not everyone who is inherently good becomes great just because they’re good at something. It takes obsession. You have to love it. You have to be slightly insane to be great at something. Because you don’t just simply become great overnight. Greatness comes with passion and drive toward one specific thing, which eventually leads to greatness.
I don’t remember exactly where I heard it from, but all my life I’ve wanted to be great. I even wrote about it in my college essay about why they should expect me. I said something along the lines of: if given enough time, then one day I’ll be great. I’m not sure what I thought I would be great at, per se, and I can’t really tell you what I’m great at now.
I really just love the saying, and I like to think that one day I’ll be great at running — but not in an elite way. More like I can fully call myself a runner type of way. I don’t really know how to explain that.
The only thing I can truly say I’m great at is probably being very disciplined, along with time management and planning. And it’s because I’m obsessed with every minute of every hour in the day. I’m obsessed with time. I’ve been obsessed with it for years. That was the second part of my college essay that coincided with greatness.
I hate to say it, but I’m so fucking type A it kills me. I even had a pre-planned nap scheduled into my day. Now, I never nap, but today was going to be my day. But then I decided that a nap was a waste of two hours of my precious time, so instead I kept checking things off and adding more things to my to-do list for a party I’m planning.
Anyways, I don’t really know what my point was with writing this, but I’ve had this singular thought in my brain for a while, so I thought I would put it on paper. Well, fake paper, because this is a Word document, but oh well.