Trial of our Peers (Personal Blog)
Take Care of Yourself
The idea of taking care of one’s self seems so American and timely in today’s day and age? There”s a constant echoing from Media (ie Reality TV, Talk Shows), Ego’s and a new sense of entitlement is quite persuasive in American society. Everyone wants to be loved by everyone yet so quite often we don’t take care of ourselves nor do we truly seem to listen to each other. To me, it’s become quite so apparent that the idea of duty is another chore. I found this quite evident in my recent 3 (three) week stint serving jury duty.
From the OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
[as modifier] (of a visit or other undertaking) done from a sense of moral obligation rather than for pleasure:a fifteen-minute duty visit
When I received my notice in the mail to report to the jury pool, I had no idea what to expect. The only things I “knew” about the processes behind selection of a panel and the proceedings of a Civil Case had been what I had seen on TV. Or back when I was in high school and my French Teacher suddenly went vanishing for almost 9 (nine) weeks. Images of 12 Angry Men, and being sequestered with emotional angry beasts jurors. Hell, I didn’t even know if I was to get paid. Yet, all I could feel was an impending sense of doom.
Part 2 tomorrow.
[Chester Kent]
