Sometimes I get a sense that we are holding reality in abeyance as we attend law school. Or perhaps attending is not the right verb. It's such an intense, all-consuming endeavor, and attending feels a bit too passive to describe it. Still, I wonder about the loss when we are finally done. This community of people also traveling this path, the sacrifice required that others don't quite get, and the shared trauma of the hard work, then waiting for grades, seeing some that we feel a strong connection to fall away...all tends to create an isolated, insulated experience that naturally incline us toward each other. Some people I might never have associated with absent this shared endeavor, but here we are.
I know we can't stay in this state forever, nor do I desire that. But I doubt the landing will be as good as the ride, and it will ever after be a memory.
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