Always Trust Your Sister - She Knows You Best
I love my sister. I do. Too much. It hurts me every day to be away from her. However, her response to a few of my blog readers' comments shows exactly why she is truly my best friend. She knows me well. Despite all of the obvious (and correct) criticisms I have received for the recent choices I have made, she knows exactly what is going on and why I have done it.
As for the comments that Anonymous left, I know he only did it to be intentionally provocative. Shell, you fell into the trap. Annie, you hit the nail on the head.
Annie knows my passion for law.
She knows that I lived and breathed it for over nine years, not just because I had to but because I loved to.
You dont go and be as successful as I have been without have some form of obsession.
She knew that the pressures in Australia were not necessarily work related - only my sister can understand what those pressures were.
I got tired of law because I got tired. Not because I was tired of law.
Those who really know me know that I simply cant sit and do nothing with my life. And those four days selling tartan made me realise that this had nothing to do with money. It had a lot to do with WHO I AM and what I need to be happy. Annie is right. I need structure. I need progression. And this job has given me exactly that, with the added bonus of being able to travel.
Oh, and I am a paralegal, not a lawyer. For those that know the difference, its a big one. I wont be having to reach billing targets. I will be researching and typing etc. I have not got a job as a lawyer per se.
Finally, I cant believe I am even having to explain myself here.
One thing I have learnt in the last month (which has been such a staggering amount!) is that this is my life. My choices.
I've landed on my feet. And I'm loving life for the first time in a long while.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me. This trip is as much about giving back to you all, as much as it is about finding out about me.
xoxoxox
k
As for the comments that Anonymous left, I know he only did it to be intentionally provocative. Shell, you fell into the trap. Annie, you hit the nail on the head.
Annie knows my passion for law.
She knows that I lived and breathed it for over nine years, not just because I had to but because I loved to.
You dont go and be as successful as I have been without have some form of obsession.
She knew that the pressures in Australia were not necessarily work related - only my sister can understand what those pressures were.
I got tired of law because I got tired. Not because I was tired of law.
Those who really know me know that I simply cant sit and do nothing with my life. And those four days selling tartan made me realise that this had nothing to do with money. It had a lot to do with WHO I AM and what I need to be happy. Annie is right. I need structure. I need progression. And this job has given me exactly that, with the added bonus of being able to travel.
Oh, and I am a paralegal, not a lawyer. For those that know the difference, its a big one. I wont be having to reach billing targets. I will be researching and typing etc. I have not got a job as a lawyer per se.
Finally, I cant believe I am even having to explain myself here.
One thing I have learnt in the last month (which has been such a staggering amount!) is that this is my life. My choices.
I've landed on my feet. And I'm loving life for the first time in a long while.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me. This trip is as much about giving back to you all, as much as it is about finding out about me.
xoxoxox
k
posted by KateOnTheGo at
11:23 AM
9 Comments:
You go girl! We all believe in you! :)
Good for you Kate, and very best wishes!!!!!
Wait a minute --you post details about your life on a public blog, with a comments area. People then comment, and you then feel you "have to explain" yourself? Get a grip. I'm merely expressing my opinion, which you can take or leave. This is one of the unbelievably ridiculous things about blogs --bloggers seem to think readers should simply concur with everything they write with bland responses like "yah, go for it, I agree!"
I just think it's awfully strange for someone to call themselves "on the go" when they merely leave a place where he/she worked as a bloody coporate f'ing lawyer (the worst of the breed), to "travel" for few days in Thailand, only to set up shop in the same bloody field in another city. So what if you've been a lawyer for 9 years or whatever --the point is GO OUT AND EXPLORE THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FAMILIAR. Push the levels of your comfort zone. Stretch yourself. Get dirty (read into that what you want; I might well mean it in both ways). Meet non-Caucasian people who don't speak your language, who have never gone to high school, let alone university. Make a difference and teach a skill to those who need it. Build a beach hut somewhere for a season and hang out and simply meditate on existence --what could be more valuable and goal-oriented than that. Crew on a sailboat across the ocean. Try a stint as a street busker. Pick grapes in Tuscany. Backpack. Stop wearing a watch for a month or two and life by a different schedule. Ever wonder WHY you have an "obsession" with being a lawyer (most people would be embarassed to admit that, and rather admit to having an obsession with, say, scuba diving, volunteer work, gardening, etc.)
Yes, my intention is to be provocative, as you say --but there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with taking one's world and completely re-examining and questioning its assumptions, values and content. Provocative --hell, yes. Ain't nothing wrong with that --that's how things happen and change.
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The problem is, Anon, is that no one actually invited you to comment on my blog. I set up comments for family and friends, not people who make comments about someone that they dont even know, or, as you have a habit of doing, putting disgusting and unwanted pornographic material on my webpage.
Get to know me, and then you may have a right to make judgement on what I do with my life.
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Posted by KateOnTheGo|5:45 pm
Geez Anon... A little off the handle there. Kate, I didn't fall into anyone's trap - simply expressing my opinion on what I thought was you falling back into your old routine that made you tired in the first place, would hate for that to happen again...
I'm still happy that you're OS and doing what you're doing and I still read your blog whenever I get a chance. The photos of the Butterflies and the bank heist are awesome, by the way.
Thanks Shell. I thought of you immediately when I learnt that there was a butterfly place, so I went there :)
I know you are a little concerned. But I do have big plans, ie South America but I need the cash to do it.... hence my desire to jump into a law job for the next six months.
I know you only care :) I didn appreciate it when I was at home, I know. :)
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