Making Sense of My Legal Future

In the eve of my presumably final days of college life, I find myself dissecting the plans I placed for myself about the initial direction I will take. However, this is still under a cloud of mystery, of where this direction will ultimately lead me – the very thing that makes me excited about life. I have declared to myself and to the world that after undergraduate studies, I shall enter a far different world called Law School (after calling off all prospects of corporate or government employment). Tracing the history of this decision is an interesting one. Initially, the legal profession was not something I would utter as my dream job before after seeing all the voluminous books I should read and understand. It was something of a default once your dad is a lawyer. Then, It was nurtured by my silent witnessing of my father – a trial lawyer himself in how he helps poor clients with their legal concerns pro bono. As I became nerdier, this desire appeared to me in different forms; from the enigmatic procedures of the Roman Senate in ancient Rome to the last defence of Nazism in the Nuremburg trials. All of which I fell in love studying and discovering. Then student politics and leadership came in and it all seemed to fall into a decipherable order. The combination of my basic interests in history, politics, and human relations met with my new found mission of social development. Social development or better yet nation building animated by “the faith that does justice” is the very heart that holds all things I believe in. Integrating all my experiences, all of my strengths, and my aspirations, it is the pursuit of justice in public governance or socio-economic development (even though how vague it can be) work where I must go forth. Though all is called to do justice to every man, my context has allowed me to conclude that my instrumentality to do justice to every man and to society as a whole is to build a legal profession. And the story then will just begin.