Going to college is more of a journey for truth than it is an age to party, waste mommy and daddy's money, and get drunk. I've always had an idea more or less about what I've wanted to do, but at this point I think it's better to look back than to look forward.
I haven't always wanted to study what I'm pursuing now. Well, I actually had a little list of things I'd like to do before law:
1. writer
2. psychologist
3. social worker
I always just wanted to help people, I mean, it's always been something I want to do. I enjoy making someone's life at least a little better, and if I could just change one person's life and make it that much nicer, it makes me that much happier and that much more satisfied with my purpose on this earth. So I always wanted to do something related with the public, or face-to-face with people.
But, then I realized I'd be eating a piece of cardboard under a bridge all my life, so I decided, hey, maybe I should do law? I've been acting since I was like 3, so it wouldn't be that difficult because all it was in essence was to put up a show in court and make shit sound believable... Then I started doing debate in high school, so I got more involved int he theoretical field. After being all smartass and bitchy through HS one day I realized.... hey.... I'm kind of smart....... So it hit me that it could work out in law since I have good analytical skills and I guess I'm "good" at writing and I read pretty thoroughly and look into details. I guess at first it was just about convenience and what was better and what could give me more money but in the end I realized by putting people away for murders and such stuff of that sort I'm helping bring that tiny bit of closure that the victim's family needs. It might not make anyone different, or change anyone's life, but that makes it at least a little bit better.
Besides that emotional joo joo, from the little I've learned of law this semester in PLA, I love it. It's fierce, it's head on, it's instinctual, it's just...... it makes me feel right at home, if that makes sense. It's sort of one of those "calling" things.
1. writer
2. psychologist
3. social worker
I always just wanted to help people, I mean, it's always been something I want to do. I enjoy making someone's life at least a little better, and if I could just change one person's life and make it that much nicer, it makes me that much happier and that much more satisfied with my purpose on this earth. So I always wanted to do something related with the public, or face-to-face with people.
But, then I realized I'd be eating a piece of cardboard under a bridge all my life, so I decided, hey, maybe I should do law? I've been acting since I was like 3, so it wouldn't be that difficult because all it was in essence was to put up a show in court and make shit sound believable... Then I started doing debate in high school, so I got more involved int he theoretical field. After being all smartass and bitchy through HS one day I realized.... hey.... I'm kind of smart....... So it hit me that it could work out in law since I have good analytical skills and I guess I'm "good" at writing and I read pretty thoroughly and look into details. I guess at first it was just about convenience and what was better and what could give me more money but in the end I realized by putting people away for murders and such stuff of that sort I'm helping bring that tiny bit of closure that the victim's family needs. It might not make anyone different, or change anyone's life, but that makes it at least a little bit better.
Besides that emotional joo joo, from the little I've learned of law this semester in PLA, I love it. It's fierce, it's head on, it's instinctual, it's just...... it makes me feel right at home, if that makes sense. It's sort of one of those "calling" things.
