We think the next thing is going to satisfy us. For some of us, it's religion, some drugs, others the next relationship. And on a minor level, we all seek that certain something in many small ways.
I find a brief slaking of this thirst in travel, in the study of law, in the arms of someone who cares about me, in the knowledge that I belong to a community of others. And yet...
I know some claim to have found it in religion, but I can't see that. For me it is not that simple. Perhaps that is the draw of organized religion, like the package deal on a cruise, or the bedroom set of furniture. No discretion or discussion necessary, because it has been so decreed. I kick against the pricks, and see no end in that. I don't eschew a spiritual path, but I very much doubt that the pursuit of that will give me the peace of arrival at that unknowable place. In fact, it may very well unsettle me further, as I examine my place in this world and with my fellow humans.
What does this have to do with the law? Nothing directly. But one of the things that briefly satisfies is intellectual discourse with interesting and questioning others, and I find that in spades via this law school experience.
Yet never enough, of anything.
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