A Short Story for Those Who Failed the Bar Exam

A Short Story for Those Who Failed the Bar Exam

A short story for those who failed the bar exam. This story was re-purposed. The original story is by Gerry Shishin Wick – (reprinted here).

A Short Story for Those Who Failed the Bar Exam

Student lived in a small wealthy area. His family was one of the wealthiest in the city. His friends would tell him how lucky he was to grow up in that family. Now he could go to college and graduate school, debt-free and make more money and live the kind of life he wanted to live. But Student never said anything when he heard this; he just nodded his head.

Soon, Student finished law school, and for three months Student studied extremely hard in a small library he had discovered near his house. Student took the bar exam, and failed. Then his friends told him how unlucky he was that he failed the bar exam. Student said nothing. Not commenting, he just nodded his head, acknowledging the situation.

Then, Student took time off work interning at a law firm so that he could study for another three months in that small library. He noticed a woman also began studying there. He eventually introduced himself, they hit it off and later got married. Then Student’s friends told him how lucky he was that the he had failed the bar exam, for otherwise he would not have met his wife. Student said nothing and simply nodded his head.

Meanwhile, Student continued working at his firm while waiting for results and eventually passed the bar exam. However, another attorney at Student’s firm progressed past the student, since the Student had taken longer to become licensed. Soon, with the downturn in the economy, Student was not needed, and fired. His friends told him how unlucky he was that he failed the bar exam, for that was the reason he was fired from his job.

Then Student used his skills he learned at his internship—as well as some of the knowledge he learned well from studying for the bar exam twice—to open his own law firm near his house. He started attracting a lot of clients. And the friends told Student how lucky he was…

Maybe perhaps of thinking about how things should be, or what was supposed to happen, we aim to accept, embrace, and make the best of things as they are. This allows us to be wise, courageous, optimistic, and to tread water—to float above our life circumstances rather than being controlled by them. This is the greatest freedom and the greatest happiness.

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