Law 11

Janine Ferisse Galgana Law 11 D (Page 5)

Learning how the rules are enforced in practice takes place by watching or playing the game, not by studying the rulebook. The above line taken from the assigned article was the one which caught my attention out of all the statements made in the reading. True enough, this is an important concept in the field of law, but I believe that this could also be applied in one’s everyday living. The truth is, I feel that it’s significant in my life right now as a college student who just turned eighteen. I don’t know if it’s just me, but being eighteen has put a lot of pressure on my part, mainly because of the idea that turning legal entails a lot of responsibilities, and also a lot of thinking about what the not-so-far ‘future’ holds for me. From the time I started my schooling up to my first year in college, I can pretty much say that I’ve been satisfied with my academic life. I’ve always been an honor student in my previous school, and I even finished high school as class valedictorian. I know that the standards in the school I’m in now is way different from what I experienced before in the school where I came from, but thankfully, I still manage to come up with grades which could make my parents feel that their hard-earned money which goes to my expensive tuition doesn’t seem a waste after all. Despite all these, when people call me smart, intelligent, clever, and add any synonym you could think of, I feel all uneasy inside. It’s like I don’t want them to call me that, because I feel that I don’t deserve it. Yes, I get good examination marks most of the time, but I never really considered this as a basis of intelligence. Maybe it could be, but it’s something that could be attributed mainly from all the books I read and all the studying I do, and I fear that all these do not really count in the ‘real world’, which is the place where I will be once I bid school goodbye. Going back to the idea of the law, it is important that you...