Patience Is A Lawyer's Virtue

I am not a patient woman.

Let me rephrase that, I am not a patient woman before I became a lawyer. I am used to getting things done efficiently and immediately. I used to be the  "NOW NA" woman personified.

Practice change all that. I have learned to become patient after barely two years of practice. I realized that if I will insist in my past paced style of living I will end up dead. Dead from all the frustrations.

Thus, I have cultivated patience from waiting for my turn during hearings.

I have learned patience from waiting for resolutions, orders and decisions.

I have learned to bite my lips while facing unreasonable people and circumstances.

I have learned to take deep breaths before acting.

I have changed.

Patience however should be differentiated from tolerance of injustice brought about by the slow pace of the judicial processes.

And I have to remind myself of that.