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God lived here

I'm Jumal, a law student, living in the city of Cardona, just an ordinary person living in the most ordinary city on the planet, nothing ever happens here, everything here is so normal that even if someone in the neighbourhood decides to visit the doctor it becomes news. People tend to live normal lives with a day job and small families of two-three and a small pet mostly a cat. I lived alone leaving my house for college hoping that it helps me focus more on my studies considering how tough is to get a law degree in the country.

I live on the north side of the city which is less crowded, I was able to rent a place with two rooms enough for my living and study, also it was the nearest place to my college which I try to attend more often than I require to do so. The life of a student is hard in the cities considering the amount of pressure the family has and the amount of daily work a person has to do. It's difficult to digest that a 19-year-old has to study at least 12 hours to get a good living and education.

My life at my home was amazing, mom used to make meals, dad used to play video games with me, and now it's all changed. I don't even have time to visit them that often. My schedule for the day is very tight and there's very little time I can put into doing something that I never planned.

May 31, Today is the day to get admitted into the next semester, there's this process of submitting fresh documents and filling up forms at the college management office, just to get admitted to the next semester. Sounds so silly that I am a student of the college studying for an entire year, but I still need to submit documents proving that I belong to this college and my identity is what I say. Well, the process is not so long but the line today is. There are two people ahead of me, I know one of them, Asayi, head of Class 10, and son of the Mayor, is very arrogant but probably the most intelligent boy in the city.

The line moved, and it was Asayi's turn to submit the documents, he holds a huge file with multiple papers, I think most of them will be certificates from contests he won at. He submitted the docs, and I was getting ready for my turn when the clerk spoke saying that the docs were wrong, I paid attention and started checking my bunch of papers, I never made any mistakes, and maybe the format changed this year. The clerk clarified that the identity document had the wrong address and the one that shows income had the wrong details too, he didn't want to accept the form and ordered to correct these details. Asayi got mad he didn't want others to know that the income doc he presented is faked, so they can get around taxation. Rich people often try to hide the fact that they are rich by making fake documents. The clerk wouldn't accept such a document, and Asayi started arguing with no outcome.

Just then Asayi took out his wallet from the back pocket of his pants, a leather black wallet, filled with green notes, my first thought this might be the semester fees, but it wasn't he took out a bundle of it and I knew he wasn't paying his fees but was bribing the management to accept his fake documents. I believe the management to not allow such behaviour I'm sure now they will punish Asayi for such a stunt, but to a shock they accepted it, not only that, but they also accepted the form and allowed this person to next semester, I hate people who accept bribe that too in an institute who is teaching that bribery is a crime. I will report this to the government, not to the media. But it will never get out I'm sure of it. The world is so corrupt everyone is so cruel, no one wants to follow the rules, and no one is disciplined. I am going to work day and night to sort this out I am going to get a law degree and punish all these people no matter what their status is, they all will be punished by me.

Snap out of it Jumal, you are not very good at law either, that's true said my inner voice, I was supposed to finish my education this year, but I failed twice already and still has another year to complete, I am so determined to be a lawyer but can't even get good marks in the most basic subjects. Why is it so hard to get marks? I'm good at understanding criminal cases but not that good at explaining them. I try to solve cases that are pending with some clues here and there I have derived solutions but what use if I can't even get good marks to pass and get a real judge to judge them?

Another day is gone, and nothing is learned, only the frustration of people and the way the world is revolving around the sun everyone wants to take shortcuts. Asayi bribing the management, the management accepting the fees, altering the records, the government accepting illegal documents, the mayor himself building fake trails of success, and so on. The world needs a cleansing, it needs a rule set, it needs someone who can tell exactly which person is doing good and who is committing bad things. There should be a number system if the person does a good deed their level increases just like my high score on the Pacman game in the Bard Arcade if a person does bad he loses his life. I'm a gamer too but only for Pacman, this game drives me nuts when someone beats my score, so I spent way too much time on it during nighttime. Currently, I have the highest score, and it is displayed on the board of the Arcade, Jumal #1 with a score of 4500000, unbeaten for, 2 years.

One day, I'm going to finish my law degree and create cases to rule out all the criminals I have collected over the years. I will make them guilty in court and the eyes of the law and make the world a good living place.