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TonbaraEkiyorFirstEssay 5 - 07 Apr 2015 - Main.AlexWeiss
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It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | COMMENT (ToddDensen): Thank you for writing this, it is an important lens to view our developing practices through. I do not doubt there are Clamences at Columbia. I think to myself often, if I want to do public interest work, then why did I come to Columbia? Is it because I was afraid to commit to it and wanted to leave option open? Is it because I knew I would do public service, but I wanted to prove how "smart" I was to others in my life, that I could get into this school? Or is it because the decision to do public interest from Columbia, where I could make a large salary if I desired, would seem all the more noble (Clamence personified)? Or is it that it is a slow process of discovery and I will make the choice of what to practice for other reasons? I do not know, but Clamence is a good story for checking ego and really understanding what our practices need to be for ourselves. | |
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> | COMMENT (AlexWeiss): Awesome piece Tombara! To piggyback on Todd's thoughts -- perhaps we chose Columbia with the thought that it would open powerful public interest opportunities to us. Sometimes I think my biggest fear -- and perhaps this means I'm motivated by selfish reasons, perhaps not -- is that if I do go into public interest, I'll wind up in a job that doesn't feel as though I'm making a tangible impact on people's lives. If I'm going to make a difference, I want to make a big difference -- although I think that ties back into what you were saying, Tombara. Maybe that makes me a Clamence (I am obsessed with climbing mountains) -- although I don't think that a feeling of superiority over my clients is what I would be seeking; perhaps it's a competitive feeling of superiority over my peers in the profession; or maybe it's just a sense of purpose. In either event, I do agree that introspection is important; that doing good merely for a sense of superiority is destined to make you feel empty.
I haven't read The Fall, but I'm curious -- I would think that Clamence is haunted by his decision not to save the girl seems to imply he is genuinely good. Or at least a part of him is. Perhaps his subsequent turmoil is his splitting. | | |
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