A breather from an all - nighter..

Vim Ac Potestatem. 'To know the law is not just to know the words of the law, but their force and power.'

It's been a month since I entered the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, College of Law. And so far, I can bravely say that I am still alive and kicking! Haha! Kidding aside, I just wanted to write what I am really feeling about everything that is happening/ had happened to me as I endeavor through the intensive training/review for me to become the finest lawyer that I dreamed and wanted to become in the future.

Law School is what I assumed it to be, tough and hard. During the first week of formal classes, tons of cases are already assigned for us to read (and digest), numerous provisions of different codes are to be read, analyzed and memorized, unexpected humiliation and embarrassment during recitations from scary law professors, daily confinement in the library, enormously thick books to read and understand, you always have to carry it like the whole world is on your back, thus, the need for a heavy-duty, long lasting and considerably huge bags (I' using a backpack now because I don't want carrying a lot of things which right now, I do have), photocopy papers of readings amounting already to a size of the biggest Webster's Dictionary, you can already make a fire with my bag when you just mistakenly drop a lighted matchstick in it, and of course, an extraordinary school life where you meet a lot of great people and be friends with them and also, where you meet annoying, stupid people, who are just there because of the prestige of being an LLB student (well, I'm not sure if I'm one of those.:D). But a midst all these, I LOVE IT! Call me a sadista or what, but I really love what they are doing with us.

I can remember the day that I learned that I have passed the admission examination for this University's College of Law. I felt that I had passed the Bar. My expectations that the examination was hard and incomprehensible were high and I didn't believe I could get in at my first try. But God really intended for me to pursue this so now I stand firm with my belief that in four years time, I will graduate in this degree and will be able to pass the Bar at the first try.

Most of our professors had asked our reasons for choosing to endeavor in such a chaotic, dangerous and not to mention, a very tough profession when we can already make and earn money with the baccalaureate degrees we have already earned. And there I was, always wondering why am I here? What is my reason for pursuing a second degree. Not just a degree, but also the most prestigious profession in the Philippines.

And I often leave that question unanswered. I don't know why. I just wanted to. But always feel the pressure that it's a must that I have an answer to that question whenever it arises.

Why do I want to be a lawyer?

I have always wanted to be a lawyer. Ever since I was a child, I had always wanted to be on the practice of law. But as I grew older, those dreams where gaining so much distance from me. I have never been the best student that I wanted myself to be. And that continued until my collegiate years, taking up something that I loathed (because, hated would be an understatement). Enough of that anyway! Haha!

This dream didn't die in my heart. I already know I am destined for greatness a long time ago and I wasn't doing anything to achieve that greatness but the opportunity to study Law came and I knew, in my heart, this was God's path to greatness for me! And I, without any hesitations, took that opportunity, thus, I am now enrolled at one of the TOP 10 Law Schools.

I love the feeling of superiority. Blame it on the zodiac signs, a Leo always wants to be superior, a lion is the king of the jungle, so my destiny is to be at the top. I a going to do my best, give my all and everything to always become the better lawyer. Because in this life, many will say the same as what I have said, many would be exerting much more effort than what I can give, etc., but I need to always be the better lawyer.

I'm still at my first month. 3 years and 9 months to go for me to still train, read and comprehend all the law what has to say and mean. I have still more than four years to study harder, read faster, comprehend better and to still improve myself year after year.

And you know, I always wanted to be branded as the 'TOPNOTCHER'.