Tokyoni mo attanda - literally meaning "I was also in Tokyo". It is a song by Fukuyama Masaharu.
Practiced for a year now - things have not been going as smoothly as I had originally expected. I used to think that if you keep your head down and just work hard, good things will happen. But I forgot that the law is a servicing industry and a business. I need to be profitable -- or have the prospect of being profitable. I'm trying, but that's not enough.
I know I am good - relative to people my age, right now, in my practice area. Eventually there will be a time when my skills become obsolete unless I stay current. Somewhere along the way in the past year I forgot about marketing myself to my own bosses.
I don't want to become yet another person working for a paycheck. I don't want to just do what's immediately available to meet my target. I want to build cities, infrastructure, things that make our place a better home for the future. There's a small flicker of passion that almost died out yesterday.
Funny how a Japanese musician's biography can do for a young lawyer struggling to keep her plate full. I still believe that effort counts in life. I don't want to be just another young female lawyer who quits the practice because of stereotypes. I don't want to be just another one of the statistics. I don't know how I'll make it happen but I'll keep trying. I don't think I'm about to give up just yet.
I was reading Fukuyama's biography about how the kid from Nagasaki left home at 18 for Tokyo in hopes of becoming a musician. Instead, he spent years working at bars and playing for no one in the audience. He is now 42 and just released one of the best selling Japanese singles in history.
Sometimes maybe if we had just toughed it out a little longer, we would have realized how close we were to making it.
on that note, here's a picture of me floating.
It's never too late to take up a new hobby. some cocktail bar made for a good setting for my T2i.
good company is hard to come by. Here's another inspirational person. don't give up, aimz.
Not everything has to serve a business purpose.
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