IKIGAI, May 2025

Ikigai (生き甲斐) is a Japanese concept that translates to "a reason for being" or "a reason to live". Last month, I randomly started to post case law summaries on LinkedIn. These case laws were handpicked by our Bar Council Publication Committee. Yes, these are the people who like to send us emails, which are mostly never opened or are ignored by many of us. These mails kept bothering me, hence since the days of chambering, I wanted to read and post them on my blog, being scared of the commitment it requires, I hesitated. Then, at the end of April, I randomly wrote a post about a criminal case, which was on my mind for a few months after giving it a read. Then, after that post, I consistently posted every day a case handpicked by our fellow committee. From contracts, civil procedure, tort, criminal, election law, revenue law, and intellectual property... Whooshh, what variety of cases I was reading, laws in fields I never expected to be read, or thought was too diff...