Need help choosing a topic for my college essay

<p>The prompt is as following: </p>

<p>A. Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.</p>

<p>OR</p>

<p>B. Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it</p>

<p>I cannot for the sake of god, decide on a topic. Mainly because I am scared of writing that something that is commonly written about and DOESN'T differentiate myself from the other thousands of applicants.</p>

<p>I've ended up with 2 topics that I have thought about deeply.</p>

<p>1) have been thinking about is writing about the constant struggle and hardships that come with constantly having to deal with my parent's expectations that they have set on me. A constant phrase I hear from them is "Do better". That's just an idea I have right now but it is something I feel very strong about. As for a particular instance, I just thought of a particular instance in my sophomore year of high school where of course my parents said do better. But in that moment, it was a realization that I had to stop trying to succeed in order to meet my parent's expectations of mine but succeed for myself</p>

<p>2)This topic I just thought of is kind of silly. The topic I would write would be weightlifting. How it has become an important part of my life, how it isn't just a matter of lifting the heaviest weights but a matter of pushing yourself behind your limits and having the commitment and determination to do so.</p>

<p>Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance guys!</p>

<p>Bump!</p>

<p>Bump</p>

<p>I think first topic would be better
Even I had written an essay on weightlifting, and it was very similar to what u have written but the essay did not seem very good. </p>

<p>The first one! Definitely include that last sentence, because it’s important to realize that you need to do things for yourself and your own success, not just to please others. That realization also motivates you - you’re not going to do nearly as well if it’s to please somebody else.</p>

<p>That second one is a bit of a stretch…it’s okay, but it sounds like somebody who couldn’t think of anything better to write about.</p>