WHY DO YOU CHOOSE TO BE A LAWYER?
This is the first question every law student, worth his salt, is asked, and this will probably be the last one he will answer.
Answer too quickly, you’re rash; too slowly, you’re dim; too lengthily, a windbag; too cleverly, a pedant. There is no correct reply. It was never meant to be answered. It was designed to humble you—on the very first day.
This question, as you will learn, is a trap. Its purpose is not evaluation, but elimination. A subtle filter to weed out those seduced by Instagram glamour or television drama. It does not gauge your ability to reason. It tests something far more fundamental: after being publicly dismantled, do you have the gall to return the next day? More determined? More resolved? It asks if you understand that humiliation is the
first, non-negotiable tuition paid in the currency of ego. a pedant. There is no correct reply. It was never meant to be answered. It was designed to humble you—on the very first day.
And so you pay. Through your professor’s umpteenth verbal assault. Through the purchase of the 13th edition of a textbook superseded by the 14th. Through reading, re-reading, highlighting, and re-highlighting the final, cryptic paragraph on page 8 of a 200-page dissenting opinion. Through the 1,461st grueling, solitary night. Through every cruel and inescapable exam. Through defending imaginary clients before imaginary arbiters, imaginary justices, imaginary benches.
You realize, then, you never did answer to that question, did you? But you did, you were answering it all along.
With every doubt swallowed. Every lonely ride home. Every failed recitation. You answered it by showing up the next day. Undeterred. Unbroken.
And now you stand before real arbiters. Real justices. Real opponents. Because you had the courage, all those years ago, to simply show up again and again and again and again.
You chose this path not to prove intelligence, but to forge character. To prove that if you can endure a personal trial of abject rigor—if you can show up for your own hardest fight—then you are well equipped to stand for someone else in theirs.
You were never paying tuition. You were paying it forward. You were choosing to be a Lawyer.
By: Gerard Joe Carillo
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