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Many people have asked me a question that is often delivered with equal measures of curiosity and disbelief: Why did you decide to study law this late in life? Some ask gently. Others ask it almost accusingly. A few have even wondered aloud why a person with four degrees would willingly go back to school for a fifth degree, this time in law. I understand their surprise.
In a society that often measures success through the accumulation of wealth and comfort, returning to the classroom after years of professional achievement appears unnecessary. I do not blame them. We are conditioned to believe that learning should end at some point. The school system teaches us that one eventually reaches an intellectual destination and settles there permanently. I can only say bure kabisa.
To be honest, I have never believed that education is a destination. It is a continuing conversation with life itself. The decision to study law did not emerge from restlessness or boredom. Neither was it driven by the desire for prestige.
It came from a deep realisation that law and literature, the discipline I have lived with for decades, are profoundly connected.
