Other than law books....

There are many things that I can’t be learning from text books..that is why learning is a lifelong process-not only in class but even when we hang out with our friends, we can learn something from them. However, each and everyone of us must be able to distinguish what is good and what is bad for us. Unfortunately, not many of us are able to do that-not myself either. To speak the truth, I really find it is so much easier to be a bad person than a good person and I am sure most of you would agree with me on this.

For me, one of the most significant experiences that I have learn this semester which cannot be found in textbook was not to take a person for granted. Previously, I have been taking someone for granted without realizing it. I am pretty sure that we have heard of the phrase, “Never do unto others what you don’t want people to do unto you or treat others as how you want others to treat you”. It didn’t struck me until I experienced this recently.

In my case, people take me for granted when I am the leader of the group by coming to the meeting an hour late and etc etc. HOWEVER, I also took my group leader for granted in another project because he is so kind. This shows that I am a selfish person although I just refuse to believe it at times. Sometimes I just tend to complain about other people especially about the misery that he or she has brought into my life without realizing that I have done the same thing to others also.
This is my first time working together in groups with different people for different projects. It’s not easy BUT it’s so easy to take people for granted and I just want to apologize to those whom I have taken for granted. I am really sorry. Sometimes when people do simple thing like helping me to find cases or listen to me when I complain, I simply take them for granted and didn’t even thank them for their time!! This makes me feel so bad now that I reflect back on my actions these few weeks.
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Although I can never promise that I will not take a person for granted again, I really hope that I will continue to improve myself to be a better person. Besides, I also hope that I will be arrogant eventhough I am law student. It’s easy to hope…Nonetheless, I hope that I can put my words into actions..
That’s all from me.