Of Exams, Growing Up, and Choices

First there were eight choices.

The first exam I failed at the College of Law was a multiple choice exam.  Eight choices, one right answer. It could be all of the above or none of the above.

I got my first 4.0, a conditional pass or if you're pessimistic a conditional fail, when I was 21 years old.  One year after I left the denial age of 'twenteen' life hit me --  everything becomes more complicated as you grow up.  Even a simple multiple choice.  I remembered looking at my bluebook with that ubiquitous red mark. I went back to my textbooks and realized that most answers were either none of the above or all of the above.

None of the above OR all of the above.

Five years into the College of Law and just two more semesters to go, I can say this has been the most valuable lesson I have learned.

Life gives us choices. Some apparent, some we have to create ourselves.  Some choices are not choices at all but merely just distractions and nuisance. But just like any exam, sometimes this distractions and nuisances are what makes it more challenging and exciting.

How to Lose Your Job for 16 Months

Losing ones job is hard enough, but losing ones job by choice is harder.

Thursday was payday.  Fifteen days ago was also payday.  If it wasn't the long lines in the ATM, I would not have noticed these two important dates.  Two months ago, I submitted my resignation letter.  I wasn't fired, I wasn't threatened of being retrenched, I had a good boss, I had flexible time, but I resigned nonetheless.  Quitting my job wasn't a simple decision, it was a choice.  It was a matter of prioritizing and focus. Since it was more of a conviction rather than forced by circumstance, I knew I had to stand up for it.

The Importance of Being Busy

"I can't get a life when my heart is not in it"

-Oasis, The Importance of Being Idle

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

-John Lennon

Today marks the first day of classes. The last leg of the final lap before graduation and before the bar exams.  Sometimes, people still ask me how I managed to juggle law school, work and getting a life.  I said I don't juggle, I just do.  The juggling is apparent after the fact, but while you're at it, it just happens.

A lot of people complain that they don't have time for anything.  Whether it is running, reading a good book, watching a movie, getting a postgraduate. The reason? They don't start. Doing something and trying to accomplish something is not really a plan, it's a conviction. A conviction to finish what you started, and proceed with what you already have, the rest will fall into place...eventually.

You can't get a life when you're Idle.

- restlessEST

A (little) Tougher Than It Is

It's May and summer is almost over, with it goes out of town trips, beach, and other laziness inspired endeavors.  Here comes June, and with it the  start of my last - crossfingers, cross toes, and everything that can be crossed - year in law school.

One. Last. Year.

So before exhaustion, and foreseeable rantings ensue I'm posting this song to remind myself  'Why?'