I thought first of all that the title of this post was very apt. It deals with the million dollar question- why? Why the website? Why the blog? Why calypso? Why the performance poetry? In fact, at one of my performances at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill, a friend of mine overheard a patron asking another patron "I thought you said she was a lawyer? So why is she singing calypso?" It is a question that has been asked on numerous occasions. Usually I trot out the expected answer: there is a certain synergy with calypso and the law, it is presenting one side of the argument and expecting the arbiter's position on your case, it is besting your opponent with your view point..yaddy yaddy yah. You get the picture.
My question is why not? I have always been a creative being and I have never placed limits on myself and what I could and could not do. Testament to my secondary school days being an athlete cum singer cum academic (I don't know how I wasn't exhausted). Polonius said it best in Hamlet "To thine own self be true and then thow can'st not be false to any man". Why should I self flagellate to fit into the mould of what others' perceptions should be? Its 2010 people. Why not a calypso-lawyer? Why not a soca-lawyer? Why not an poet- lawyer? So I guess the answer is, this is me and what I enjoy and if you do not like it tough. And besides, I never really enjoyed fitting in- I think I do standing out quite well! Plus I could never be a grey-suit lawyer, one of those who live and die at the office. I was so happy when one of the associates told me she started rnb dance classes. In my head I said "Good on you!". We have one life to live, and god forbid me if I live it as if it's a dress rehearsal.
My question is why not? I have always been a creative being and I have never placed limits on myself and what I could and could not do. Testament to my secondary school days being an athlete cum singer cum academic (I don't know how I wasn't exhausted). Polonius said it best in Hamlet "To thine own self be true and then thow can'st not be false to any man". Why should I self flagellate to fit into the mould of what others' perceptions should be? Its 2010 people. Why not a calypso-lawyer? Why not a soca-lawyer? Why not an poet- lawyer? So I guess the answer is, this is me and what I enjoy and if you do not like it tough. And besides, I never really enjoyed fitting in- I think I do standing out quite well! Plus I could never be a grey-suit lawyer, one of those who live and die at the office. I was so happy when one of the associates told me she started rnb dance classes. In my head I said "Good on you!". We have one life to live, and god forbid me if I live it as if it's a dress rehearsal.
So this is essentially my ratio decidendi. Any objections?
xkima
