Lawyering as a Humbling Work
July 18th, 2007 Shobe_ceo
Barely two months on Law school and I am struggling for life…I realize that, indeed, becoming a lawyer is such a noble work, and requires A LOT more than just the intellect to become one. For one, a lawyer needs a lot of patience in reading cases, dealing with assignments and/or professors and classmates, etc…a lawyer needs passion for without it, one will never survive the jungle called ‘law school’…a lawyer needs confidence in projecting himself or herself in front of people, one must be a good in showing that he/she knows what he/she is saying, even if in the truth is that he spent the night in the bar drinking or at home sleeping and didn’t get to read the cases assigned…and more specially, a laywer needs to be humble, in accepting that he is but just a grain in the pile of sand at the jungle.
Lawyering, as I have proven, is such a humbling profession. One must know everything one can know, yet still know that one doesn’t know anything at all. When I entered Ateneo, Loyola School for college, such realization has already sinked in to me. That despite the fact that yeah, you are an honor student back then in elementary and high school, entering Ateneo would make a HUGE difference. You’ll see in your block a pile of former valedictorians or salutatorians or other honor students. No one is dumb, only for you to realize that, “Oh my…I am dumb! (as compared to these geeks)”. Well yeah, its a harsh reality that though you are already smart and an achiever, still there will be a lot more wiser and smarter than you. And now, Ateneo Law School, is just proving me how many other people are even smarter and wiser. It is painful but it is the truth.
But it shouldn’t stop anyone, like me, to continue aspiring to improve one’s self. As a favorite line would say, “I do not stop when I’m tired, I only stop when I am done”. I hope and pray to finish this race ’til the end!
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