What has happened since then has been a series of life changes that has seen me metaphorse from a girl of simple dreams to one for whom a whole new life beckoned. For all the hype, it cannot be denied that entering the field of law brings with it a whole lot of new persepectives.
Am I speaking in English here? Well, let's try to simplify things. For one thing, I became more vigilant of my rights as a result of speaking up and defending the rights of others. It made me also appreciate more the values of rules and norms, and coming from one who always tries to find loopholes in everywhere, that is saying much. In a just and orderly society, laws not only bring order and organization but it becomes the great equalizer bringing both benefits and punishment irregardless of class or race. Ideally that is and more often than not happens more on paper than in reality. It has been said that we are a nation of great laws yet fails miserably in implementation. But still, my experience has shown that when you know the law, the less likely will people trample on your rights. Knowledge indeed is power and nowhere is it more lodged than in lawyers who have the law on their "fingertips" (words of a law professor).
But more than the power that goes with the profession, there is no satisfaction that can equal a case won that brings such sighs of relief and even happiness to your clients. Land seemingly lost is recovered, an acquittal is scored for unjust charges, and support is legally-obliged from a dead-beat father and husband for a mother and her children. This is the purpose that sprinsg from the law profession, one that all lawyers must not lose sight of, to have all respect the rights of others and the rule of law.
So how far have I gone since that self-defining day? I'm mellowed down somehow from the initial litigous "mania" that comes with all neophyte men of law but I have not forgotten that despite all the heckles, lawyer-jokes and sometimes undeserved bad publicity, I still truly believe that the law is one noble profession indeed.
