What is your purpose in life? How does becoming a lawyer help you achieve said purpose?

My purpose in life is to be happy. Sounds cliché, but this is always my answer.

Whenever people asked me this question, and I answered “to be happy”, I always
looked forward that they will ask this follow-up question: “What is your definition of
happiness?” This way, I can explain my purpose in life.

Happiness for me transcends beyond self-satisfaction. My happiness does not

anymore focus solely on myself, it includes the people around me, my community, and my
country. I am working hard for my progress because my inner core has this clamour to
empower others. Growing up without lavishness, I witnessed how disparity dictates
society. There is this social defect in which one’s social status labels how one should be
treated. These people judged by society needs to be rescued. The social defect should be
corrected.

Being a lawyer is essential for the achievement of my purpose in life. Equipped with
vast knowledge on Philippine statutes, laws, and systems will make me understand more
the society. With more knowledge on people’s rights, I will know how to defend people.
With more knowledge on what the law says, I will lessen the abuses. With more
knowledge on what is legal, I will correct the illegal. With more knowledge on the
scriptures of the law, I will be of service to people around me who are misjudged by
society, my community who are labelled with inferiority and my country who is
victimized by corrupted ideologies.

I am presently a government worker, doing best to render service with integrity.

My work brings me to a closer look that the government, being an element of the State
holds a crucial role to the lives of the people. Its legislations, orders, executions, allocations
of scarce resources directly affect the constituents. However, on the other side, these
experiences have further opened my eyes of how flawed the system is. The political
systems who owe service to the people are overridden with self-interests, state principles
are bartered with personal agendas, and worse, the government is seemingly not for the
people. I sometimes asked, “Are these creations of the society?” Maybe yes, maybe no, but I
am firm not to submit with the corrupted system and inculcate my purpose.

I will be a lawyer because I will continue to achieve my purpose in life. If permitted

by the will of God, I am certain that studying law will empower me in many ways. If I am
honed in my best capacity, I will have more opportunity to be impactful to others. I can
never be everything to solve all the defects and rotten systems of society, but I can be
someone who can create changes and touch the lives of other people. After all, I wish to
answer with confidence the most persistent and urgent question of life posed by Martin
Luther King, Jr., “What are you doing for others?”