It has been said that your vocation is the intersection between
your deepest personal desires and the world’s greatest need. Vocation or
calling is your place in the greater scheme of things where ultimately, your
joy lies.
In the course of my life, I’ve always placed this graphical representation
of vocation at a dominant position in my daily thought and reflection. More so
now that my journey towards what I believe is my professional calling has
started. My only nugget of wisdom that I can share is that the ultimate source
of motivation should lay not so much on the potential prestige and worldly
honor this profession supposedly holds rather it should properly lay on that
intrinsic personal desire to cultivate a character and competency that can effectively
meet a need of this world – justice.
I keep putting this in my head and it serves as a guiding compass
for me in how to approach the things I do from my engagements to my studies. So
for us students of the law, though we run a daily life filed with mental and
emotional challenges, we should never lose sight on this fundamental and ideal
framework of living. Study not just for yourself, study for others.
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