The Holtonian

How a Fairy Tale Informed My Decision on Law School

So one thing i realized going through my whole crisis about law school was
the story of the dog who had a steak. I remember reading this old story when
i was a kid and it involved two things i like, dogs and steaks. The dog is
happily running around steak in mouth, so happy that he had foudn this
wonderful precious piece of grade A beef. When all of a sudden he goes
across a brook (there was a bridge he didn't walk on water or anything). He
stops midway over the bridge and looks down into the creek and sees another
dog with a steak just like his in his mouth. He became so jealous and wanted
that dogs steak too, he wanted to have more steak. The once perfectly ample
steak that was his pride and joy was now not enough he wanted that other
dogs steak. So he opened his mouth to bark at the other dog when all of a
sudden his own steak dropped from his mouth and into the stream.... then he
looked at the other dog and saw his steak was gone too.
That story was so poinant, or at least i will make it so in my own head. I
was like the dog. I had a great job but i wanted more, i saw the possiblity
for more but what i realized was if i went for more, i might lose what i
had. SO instead i kept my own steak and bought a house and now I can finally
have a BBQ and invite all my friends to share in my steak. Hmmm.... maybe I
should have gone with The Little Engine That Could....