A Judge gets an opportunity to serve large number of individuals during his lifetime.
He hepls small people. He helps big people. He often saves weak persons from tyranny of strong persons.
If "To do Justice " is his passion he works day and night.
Time flies faster for him.
He has to work in a system. The system may be slow or it may have flaws. He has to follow rules of the system.
Now and then, he thinks about his own promotion. Then he becomes aware that there is a thing called politics or patronage from above, necessary from somewhere.
But then he forgets. He has little time to think about such things. Here, at the place where he is, he has yet a lot to do. Here, there are so many people who want justice from him.
While doing justice in every case, he learns a lot about laws and also about human nature.
Some people will never be satisfied even if he has done full justice to him. And some people will remain obliged to him for their life even if he had just nudged other party to become reasonable.
He will be lightly aware about all sorts of right and wrong things being said about him in corridors of court lobbies. He would be faintly aware about some Lawyers charging bribe from clients in his name.
But he will have little time to think about these. These are things over which he has no control.
He will feel a pinch in heart, when his just order is set aside by a superior court without even reading the reasons given by him. But these are again things over which he has no control.
Gradually, his work teaches him to focus on the present moment and present case. He learns to forget things over which he has no control.
He gradually becomes a Stoic.
Haresh Raichura 21/7/17
