New Beginnings :)

Today, for the very first time since I came to law school, I'm feeling that ineffable joy again. The same joy I felt when I got into law school. The same joy I felt every time I danced on stage. The same joy I've felt only a handful of times in my entire lifetime but felt enough number of times to consider myself lucky. Absolute, unbridled, uncontainable. Like nothing, absolutely nothing in the world can go wrong. It's an amazing feeling. I can't particularly pinpoint one reason for it but something tells me it's law school's way of reciprocating the love I've come to develop for it. Despite the billion things that are not ideal with this place, despite everything that we all complain about. It has a different charm and I've realised that you have to let it grow on you for a while before you can really pass a judgement. Which is something law schoolites tend to do way too fast.

Some might say that I'm still a youngling and along the way I'll discover a million other things which will make me hate this place. I have just one thing to ask in response. Which place doesn't have cons? None that I know of. In some the pros outweigh the cons and vice-versa in others. But that to me is purely a matter of perspective. The things that may appear to be cons to you, might be the exact things that I love the most about a place. Obviously I am not in a position to comment on all the other institutions in this world, but I think I can say with a fair amount of conviction that there is no other place I would rather be, no other institution I would rather call my alma mater. Every place can be improved in a lot of ways. So can law school. But that in no way takes away from everything that is awesome about it already. Which is quite a lot. And I think a lot of us forget that sometimes. Unfortunately so.

But I'm hopeful. My great grandfather spent the last bit of his life, bed-ridden. Yet the one thing that he never failed to tell me, time and again, every single day I saw him, was to smile. "Your attire is incomplete without your smile", he would fondly say. Smile because every day is worth living for and nothing is ever over until you think it is. Until and unless you write off something as finished or unredeemable, it never is. He never wrote himself off and he was by far one of the happiest people I've ever seen. The reason I say this here is because I truly believe in it. There has been lot of talk about law school traditions, law school standards and the 'spirit' of law school as it used to be, being dead and non-existent. Or greatly diminished atleast. I haven't been here long enough to comment on that. But all I can say is that from whatever little I've seen and heard, I don't think the law school spirit deserves to be written off just yet. It's never too late to make a new beginning and all we need is to start over. I'm sure it will work. It must. Because I for one believe, that law school's redemption is just beginning. And if for nothing else, then for the great law school spirit that apparently was, it deserves this one, whole-hearted attempt at revival.

To new beginnings. To law school. Cheers :)

A Step Forward.

There are the times when everything seems static, not moving at all. You feel frozen, trapped in time almost. And then suddenly, it all starts moving again. One step at a time. And once again, you feel in control. Moving slowly and steadily. It's early I know, but I have a good feeling about this. Even the next few bits.

On a side, as cliched as it sounds, tell the people you love today how much they mean to you. Everyone isn't as lucky so make the best of it :)

Change.

Change is the only constant. So cliched, so true. Its what makes the future so unpredictable. However much we may think that we can see that distant horizon that we're someday, most definitely going to reach, it doesn't happen. Most times, that is. In between the time when you see that point on the distant horizon and the time when you think that you have sort of gotten there, a lot changes. Including the path that you take to get there and consequently, the point on that horizon where you end up reaching. Or the horizon itself, if you will. You make compromises and give up on things you never thought you would. On the bright side, you also learn a lot many more things, meet new people, come across new ideas and go through varied experiences. But like I said, nothing stays static. All of these notions change. On a frequent basis. And sometimes, just sometimes, you get a little tired of that continuous movement. That ever-changing need to adapt yourself to situations. But eventually you learn to live with it. You gotta learn to live and live and learn :)

I have never missed my dance so much. Never. Just saying.