Will the Strong Stand Up?

I'm no superman, neither am I a hero, but sometimes i wonder if some people in law school will tantamount to anything but some desk jockey professional, drinking and burning the midnight oil to draft some paper to take care of someone's legal problem.

Being a lawyer is a prestigious job. Especially in the Provinces of the Philippines. You go to the boondocks and people think you're the best thing since sliced bread if they find out you're a lawyer. Lawyers like this, I mean who wouldn't enjoy stroking their ego once in awhile, but I digress.

If you become a lawyer because you believe in purely the economic reasons or you like the prestige, then fine, at least you're honest about it.

My beef goes to the law students that like to float their boat on how their gonna be the defender of the downtrodden, but, in the small hallways of the law school, don't have the guts to stand up to simple bullies or peer pressure. If they can't take the heat in a very small law school, what makes them think they'll have the guts, or the resolve to fight the real bad guys outside in the real world?

In the real world there is no Dean to scare the bullies with punishment of getting kicked out. In the real world, the real bad criminals don't care about the rules. They feel they are above them. In a third world country like our own, they will use every dirty tactic to get at you, your family, and everyone else they feel has the gall to go against their bullying ways.

I feel sad for those who are easily intimidated by groups who impose their will, right or wrong, on others by showing numbers or worse, by theoretical connections. There is nothing wrong with being proud of your group of friends. People do it all the time, my classmate just became the big shot of company A, I can help you get that deal etc., but if you use it to bully, you know there's something wrong. You'd think being in a professional school, all students being college graduates, all of them would have learned who they are or built some backbone. Have some character! But apparently, delaying one's entrance into the real world may retard some emotional maturities.

There is a bigger world outside law school. No small or big group has a monopoly on influence. If only some law students see the bigger picture, maybe they'll have the strength to overcome any problem. Maybe things won't be so hopeless.

Do I want to be a super hero? hmmm. I'm a practical man.