So today marks the beginning of the end of 2015. Is it just me or this year flew by too fast? January feels like yesterday. And no, I am not going to ASK about how many of your new years resolutions got struck of the 'to do list'. Or rather the to-do-for-the-first-week-of-January list.
We all still have a whole Seven-Hundred-and-Twenty hours to do what hasn't been done all year. See what I did there? Tried making the remaining time look much longer. That was a total fail!
If you accomplished every positive thing in your list then, good for you!! The world needs you! Many, many more like you. For some, a month-ish is a long time to get some things done. Shake things up a bit to avoid feeling like a year just got completely wasted; or have an answer for when people ask about your 2015 accomplishments.
The rest who see it like I do, last days of the year that will go by even faster than the other 335 until the final hour to another new year, just push any remnant resolutions to 2016 like a great percentage of humans do every other year. No one will judge you. I know I won't.
It has been quite a year. A number of highlights topped by the Pre-Bar Exams cancellation. The exam now water under the bridge for anyone who joined law school prior to September 2012. This is quite a huge highlight because the most immediate and distant future revolves around it. I do not know what Kenya School of Law was trying pull but at least that's over. The general standard of legal education might have dwindled a bit over the past few decades that might have seen to the need to separate chaff from The wheat. Introducing the exam, however seemed like a number cut-off measure of some sort. There are too many lawyers than the system can handle. Everyone wants that crucial diploma certificate. An entrance exam only made the proverbial light further away in the already long (not dark, just long) tunnel of one's quest for legal education.
Some 'lowlights' [If that's even a word. scrabble] too. Losing an iconic family patriarch (Jaduong') Richard Agak, may he rest in peace.
Then there is the Council for Legal Education giving as a run for our degrees.
Highlights, lowlights and well, other moments that, come to think of it, are just blank gaps between one day and the next. Moments between when there is no mention of terrorists wrecking havoc all over the place, planes crashing, Obama and pope coming to Kenya or seeing the ocean for the first time. Not ordinary life per se. Time to reinvigorate. I bet people who meditate might have a word for that limbo.
Best part is, we get a whole new year for a fresh start, make right what was wrong, make new goals [Chelsea fans, I am not pointing fingers], accomplish procrastinated ones, or for workaholics, rest a little. Hopefully that is what the extra day is for. Yes, 2016 is a leap year. Mind blown!
