being yourself | fragile happiness | everlasting love
14 Mar 09 - Saturday - 11:07 a.m.
I met a policeman in Court on Monday who was serving his National Service. I asked if he was going to be a lawyer and he told me that his family members were all civil servants and scientists and although he was studying part time for a law degree, what he really wanted to be was a quantum physicist.
We then proceeded to have a conversation which I thought I would never have after leaving Physics behind in Secondary School.
"I'm sorry about that," he said. "I'm really young...only 19, and physics is all I think about sometimes."
There's nothing to be sorry about, I said. You should never be sorry about who you are.
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A long while ago, when I barely started out in practice, I wrote this entry.
A really really long while later, I must say I feel quite differently about a lot of it.
Am I numbed and jaded by my job? Or has the passage of time soften everyone's prejudices including mine?
I would like to think that I have just learnt that no matter what happens and how bleak everything seems, it's all incidental so long as you find happiness in the end.
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The Buddha, HJ and I were giving a seminar at one of our clients' office yesterday evening about irrevocable statutory trusts and the impending change in the legal framework relating to that to remove the harshness and permanence of the old law.
"Love is just no longer permanent these days," I whispered to HJ.