At first I thought I’d put the title of this post as my
facebook status – get a hundred and fifty likes – feel good about myself – and
move on!
But the fact remains
that I am getting more and more partial towards my blog by the second, which I
should be allowed to given that I think that my blog is my baby (like facebook
is Mark Zuckerberg’s baby). So I ditched facebook and decided to write about it
here - in my very own little space (even though I know that it’s not going to
get me even five likes – people are surprisingly lazy to explore something new-
but it’s not about the likes anymore, I guess). J
Very recently I told you about the worst feeling on my list
of various feelings; it was the feeling of drowning (and also the feeling of
dealing with a Govt. clerk).
However, this post is not about that.
It is about that heady-oh-my-god-i-cant-believe-it-took-me-24-years-to-experience-something-like-this-feeling and I figure, if you have been patient enough to hear me bitch about the stupid clerks, you have every right to share my happy-feeling too.
However, this post is not about that.
It is about that heady-oh-my-god-i-cant-believe-it-took-me-24-years-to-experience-something-like-this-feeling and I figure, if you have been patient enough to hear me bitch about the stupid clerks, you have every right to share my happy-feeling too.
The happiest moment that I experience these days is WHEN I
APPEAR IN A COURTROOM.
God, the thrill- don’t think of me as immodest- is orgasmic.
No matter how nervous you are before as soon as you are
there at the dice everyone else changes into blurry images. It’s you at the
centre stage and even though it may last for only five seconds but that sudden
rush of knowing that it’s on you that the entire case rests is mind blowing.
For that brief moment you are one of the most important persons in the court room - even though all you have to do is to seek a Passover or make a request for adjournment (fellow lawyers will know) – or may be even stand silently as the court goes about doing its business. And once you are done- the slightest look of appreciation in your-honour’s eye is more than enough to make you go- vroom.
For that brief moment you are one of the most important persons in the court room - even though all you have to do is to seek a Passover or make a request for adjournment (fellow lawyers will know) – or may be even stand silently as the court goes about doing its business. And once you are done- the slightest look of appreciation in your-honour’s eye is more than enough to make you go- vroom.
Walking down the alleys of the High Court in your prized black robe – even if you are the one with the most simplest of the job in the entire building- makes you feel every bit worth it.
Yep! this is where I work and I couldn't be more proud of the fact.
Five years ago the word “corporate law” was so big in my
dictionary that nothing else mattered. All I knew was that as and when I’d be
done with law I’d move to some big city and make big bucks; That one day I
would join the Honourable High Court of Punjab and Haryana to practise law –
the very thought never even crossed my mind. What did I know back then that not
only will I practise law but it’d be something that I’d myself choose to do? They
say you are at the right kind of job if you are looking forward to the Mondays.
Well, so far so good.
Not that the High Court will stop functioning if I don’t
show up but just the fact that I did something meaningfully enjoyable is more
than enough to get me straight through the week.
I had heard many people say that Practising law is like ecstasy
and once you are hooked to it, you are hooked for life. It is too early to say
but as of now I will sign off with the following words –
I am aware that it’d
be long before the “big bucks” come in but till then I am satisfied knowing
that every day at the High Court brings with it a new challenge - a new
concept- a new Drama.
And here’s to a new beginning- Cheers!
Or should I say Order-Order!
