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(Final Version)
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A HUMAN BEING LIVING IN A DIFFERENT CULTURE | | |
III. Experiencing Changes In Thoughts | |
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< | While these two major differences struck me, I came to reconsider my goals in life. Up to this point, I always wanted to be a successful corporate lawyer. I had no doubt I would be a good one. It is not only because I have a financial friendly result of my career aptitude test. Actually I have a huge interest in finance and the substantial reason for this is because of the people I always meet, “my friends”. I have nine very close friends who always gather together ever since we were freshmen in universities. Except two of us, seven members of our group went to the finance world to get a job. As a consequence, whenever we meet, our conversation topics are things related to finance. I naturally gained knowledge in the finance field and came to know what lawyers do in that field. The way how financial transactions occurred and how lawyers played significant roles in those situations fascinated me. The investment bankers looked like “racing horses” since they had the money and had the physical ability to run, but they did know the rules of racing, or how to race. On the other hand, lawyers looked like “jockeys”. Even though they didn’t have the money to invest or the physical strength to run the actual race, they knew the rules of racing and could give advice how to race. Between those two, the latter seemed much more attractive and fun to me. That’s why I started to dream of being a corporate lawyer. I had no doubt that it was what I wanted to do and it would be the best job for me. | >
> | While these two major differences struck me, I came to reconsider my goals in life. Up to this point, I always wanted to be a successful corporate lawyer. I had no doubt I would be a good one. It is not only because I have a finance friendly reuslt on my career aptitude test. Actually I have a huge interest in finance and the substantial reason for this is because of the people I always meet, “my friends”. I have nine very close friends who always gather together ever since we were freshmen in universities. Except two of us, seven members of our group went to the finance world to get a job. As a consequence, whenever we meet, our conversation topics are things related to finance. I naturally gained knowledge in the finance field and came to know what lawyers do in that field. The way how financial transactions occurred and how lawyers played significant roles in those situations fascinated me. The investment bankers looked like “racing horses” since they had the money and had the physical ability to run, but they did not know the rules of racing, or how to race. On the other hand, lawyers looked like “jockeys”. Even though they didn’t have the money to invest or the physical strength to run the actual race, they knew the rules of racing and could give advice how to race. Between those two, the latter seemed much more attractive and fun to me. That’s why I started to dream of being a corporate lawyer. I had no doubt that it was what I wanted to do and it would be the best job for me. | | | | |
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< | However, when I came to New York, I realized people had totally different values, in life, from me. Several questions started to hover in my mind. “Is the value that I have pursued for my whole life an “optimal” one for me?” “Am I pursuing it because I really want to achieve it? Or just because it’s what’s regarded to be the best thing to pursue?” After being questioned these questions, I couldn’t get rid of these questions. In the past, I was pretty sure who I was and what I wanted. But now, as a person who doesn’t even know what exists out there in the world, I’m getting confused about my goals in life. It’s probably because I’m thinking about things which I didn’t think about in the past. I’m sure that my thoughts are being generated by totally different viewpoints of people I newly met here in New York. I have to say that most of the “shocking approaches on matters” or “viewpoints I have never thought about” are coming from “Law in the Internet Society” lecture. | >
> | However, when I came to New York, I realized people had totally different values, in life, from me. Several questions started to hover in my mind. “Is the value that I have pursued for my whole life an “optimal” one for me?” “Am I pursuing it because I really want to achieve it? Or just because it’s what’s regarded to be the best thing to pursue?” After being questioned by these questions, I couldn’t get rid of these questions. In the past, I was pretty sure who I was and what I wanted. But now, as a person who doesn’t even know what exists out there in the world, I’m getting confused about my goals in life. It’s probably because I’m thinking about things which I didn’t think about in the past. I’m sure that my thoughts are being generated by totally different viewpoints of people I newly met here in New York. I have to say that most of the “shocking approaches on matters” or “viewpoints I have never thought about” are coming from “Law in the Internet Society” lecture. | | |
IV. Conclusion | | |
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