Anis Ahmed Khan, an advocate in Supreme Court, once asked me to not to speak much about good qualities of others.
This was new to me. I believed in Gandhian principle :"See only good in others".
After years, I realised what he meant to say.
All lawyers come from different backgrounds. Some have rich advocates as their patents. Some may have education in best schools from where they may have learned hard working habits. Some may have inherited dashing culture from their parents in their DNA.
They may be good. But their methods, their thinking habits, their physical habits, their cliches and thumb rules may not work for you. Because you have come from a different background. Your schools were different. The nurturing which you get from your parents was different.
What works for other may not work for you.
And what works for you cannot work for them.
For example, I can write beautiful and soul touching poems about lawyers and judges, which none of them can. Anil Diwan, a top Senior Advocate of India, once described me as "Quick Poet".
The moral of this story is:
You are different. What works for others, may not work for you. When you admire some one, you are putting them at higher level than you. Indirectly, you are putting yourself at a lower level than them.
And I don't think this is good.
Haresh Raichura
(Lawyer, Supreme Court of India), on twitter @hareshraichura, profile on LinkedIn as Haresh Raichura
