My Calling Has Been Found!

Yay! I just found my calling in life!

I would make a very good Human Rights Lawyer, or International-Law Lawyer! I see justice & what better way to acquire it than by liberating the vulnerable or seeking world peace?

I have also realised that, sadly, I have been sucker-punched into a world pinned on money & success. Maybe this is why I cannot survive in a corporate law firm. I cannot find passion in any of that work. Sure, the work is challenging & sometimes interesting, but none of it can sustain my threshold level of commitment that I would need for a cause. Human rights & international law, on the other hand, has always been something that has sustained my interest because of what I will be fighting for in the long & short term. It could be from liberating a woman from an abusive marriage to preventing rape & systemic intimate violence as a war crime committed by heinous war lords. This is how I would define success

Justice in an unjust world – for the individual & the community!

I know that it will not be an easy task - but when has that ever discouraged me from anything? I live for and strive for challenges! I will work FOR the people, BY the people, and WITH the people! I want to know that what I'm doing will contribute to make the world a better place - the cliché of the century! I want to know that what I'm doing is working toward a bigger & more profound cause - something worth looking back to & saying to myself, "I have done my bit for humanity..."

This revelation must have been inspired by Drizzit, methinks. He lives in a malicious world & yet he remains true to himself & his values of honour & justice, & shows mercy when necessary, valour in battle, & courage in adversity. He spits in the foul mouths of deceit, treachery, & evil. There have been times in the past 6 months where I have pondered on some of the most disgusting & vile creatures to have walked this earth & felt that now, I have the ammunition to put YOU to an end, not just the criminal but the cause. The cause goes with the criminal - they are interdependent & mutually beneficial. To have one without the other is the goal of liberation. Without the criminal, the cause cannot be sustained. Without the cause, the criminal cannot be sustained.

Human rights, in my humble opinion, is fortified in many areas of law, but to which my interest is founded in International law, Criminal law, Family law. Any one of these fields respects the need to have human rights respected for justice to be accorded. Albeit, human rights may appear to have complicated quite a few issues in these fields, but perhaps this is attributed to poor augmentation of the law & the rights. Insufficient arguments & lack of interest in the cause can make human rights seem as though it lacks a solid backbone.