The Practice of Law Will Allow Me to Mobilize Individuals and Communiti

The Practice of Law Will get Me to Mobilize Individuals and Communities   Rowing is Gods sport. The crisp early morning air, mist-shrouded hills, shells gliding wordlessly on the glassy surface, oars slicing in unison. For casual observers, time slows and they produce immersed in art. An ardent rower, I experience this beauty, but I withal know that strength, courage and endurance command the shell, as in life.   Silence. whiteness knuckles and callused palms suffocate the oar. In anticipation, my breathing, even my pumping heart stops. Then the motor horn sounds. Adrenaline rips through my torso. I pull, and keep pulling, sinews stretched to breaking, every muscle shout to quit. Concentrating only on the starting go in, I surge forward relentlessly. That dock is my beacon.   I left home at sixteen. My single mothers drinking had execute intolerable. Regina, my twin, was pregnant her drug-addict boyfriend moved in. The starting horn had sounded.   High take races by when you have to study, make a living, do chores, play guitar in a band, and still maintain a social life. But the emancipation gave me strength. There were some ironies. I had no curfew, but there wasnt oftentimes to do in Artesia, New Mexico. As my own guardian, I could point out sick slips and grade reports, and attend PTA events. I earned two varsity letters, the maximum AP credits, and enough wages to escape debt.   Disregarding warnings that fifty cents and a humanities stratum could only buy a cup of coffee, I selected political science and economics, impelled by a seemingly lifelike curiosity to study the two edifices of our society. Taking to reading like breathing, I devoured Marx, Mill, Keynes, and Smith, oblivious to my r... ...ities, and setting mechanisms for coordinating these efforts nationwide, so that populations can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.   I want to fight poverty and social unfairness on a large scale. My plans include ob taining a law degree with a concentration in public interest law, gaining broad insurance policy experience as a legislative advisor and eventually lead-in my own anti-poverty agency. But I dream of running for elected office, and winning-politics has the military group to mobilize individuals, communities and nations.   But who am I to dream such things? why will I succeed? Because I am passionate? Maybe. Because I live my life like I row? Possibly. The real savvy is that there will always be a part of me, Regina cleaved from the resembling flesh, for whom poverty is a daily struggle. Regina is my beacon. I see her in the look of every person I try to help.