Lyrics and Laughter

There are a few things that can bring a smile to my face no matter what. Regardless of how rough my day has been, of what lectures my mother might have given, what disasters the kittens have caused, what arguments I might have had....they will light me up. Laughter is definitely the cure-all for me. Once I crack, the shadows retreat and the cobwebs are swept away - if I may so abuse a analogy. If I can use another analogy, from a videogame....it's as if laughter is a potion that restores me 10 health/life pts. The good thing is that I can find them all over this place and through all the levels of this game we call life.

Moving on from gamer analogies, it's towards the last few days of October, which means November will start soon....which means that finals are only about one month a day. I was talking to my friend John about my endeavors and he asked if law school realy was like a job. I answered in the affirmative, adding that it was like a job for which an entire year's pay depended on the results of four exams, all between 2 and 3 hours long. As he said, "no pressure right?"

I was thinking about Boston this morning, as I always seem to do. I miss Boston with my whole body. I feel like I built a family there, my friends and I becoming entertwined in each others' lives, never to unravel. That being said. I am glad I got out of Boston when I did. It's a bittersweet gladness, but at one point there was too much. Too much emotion and history. The entire mess was threatening to boil over and burn me. Quite a number of friends also dispersed to other parts of the country and some even the world. So in a way, I would have felt very odd and left out had I not also picked up and gone. While I may not have gotten into a top 10 law school or performed the way I wanted to on the LSAT, but my life could be worse.

Here I have new friends that seem to know exactly how to make me laugh without even trying. We all have too much emotional baggage, too many financial worries, too many family issues. Some have come with their significant others, some dropped theirs in favor of starting fresh. Some like myself - are in a limbo. Just as with academics and law school in general, we're all on the same playing field, we have the same odds.

The only difference between us?

What we do with the time and things we've got.