Monday, January 09, 2006

contemplative

First day of school brings with it a queer mix of familiarity and strangeness at the same time. There will be the customary group of girls who always look impeccably dressed, with perfect style and flawless makeup, strutting around as though they are total queens of the school (by the way, law school will never be complete without this group); then there are those who will have read all the notes beforehand, applying tremendous pressure on everyone else to keep up (another essential group to complete the law school experience); finally there is the group which I belong to, who just woke up from the holiday season, struggling to get back to the groove of pure labour once more. :)

It is definitely a humbling experience to be in this faculty. It's the place where among the most brilliant brains are found; people who voice excellent comments and come up with ingenious arguments; people who appear not to study as hard and yet acing their exams like nobody's business. Thank goodness for some of my friends who are more human like me. I wouldn't know how to survive without my dear brothers and sisters-in-christ.

A quote which inspired me:

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.

Impossible is nothing.