In
this month's column, Beds shares some awesome and meaningful anecdotes.
"The law is a strange profession in that regard. It attracts people with big egos and then reduces them as surely as hammer and chisel reduce stone."
Anybody who’s spent a lifetime in the law has stories like these. Scars and skidmarks come with the territory.There is satisfaction, vindication and a limitless number of possibilities to do good for others. There is what Aristotle called eudemonia: the happiness that comes from a life lived to its full potential. But no one escapes unmarked.Fortunately, for every chunk and chip the chisel takes off your ego, there is another case, another cause, another day that brings reward and fulfillment. If you practice ethically and honestly, your heart and mind expand to fill the space previously occupied by your vanity.Michelangelo said sculpture is “an art that takes away superfluous material.” So is the practice of law.
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