Even though I'm almost positive this photo was a result of drinking, this is how I felt this morning due to lack of sleep. I thought I was going to fall over in the stahl I was peeing in. This may have been a result of leaving my house at 4:00 pm, coming home at 11:00 pm and starting to study my Spanish test at 12:30 am. Yes, I started studying my Spanish test at 12:30 am.
But hey, its either that or I try in the morning and not do as well. I'm expecting a 90 or above on the test. Without studying for the test, I'm sure it I'd be hoping for an 80.
But that photo actually brings up a great virtue and my "virtue of the day:" temperance. No, I won't talk about the virtue of drinking because it didn't really fit in with what I did for the day. The picture simply implies this guy should practice temperance and ... uhh... instead he'll have the taste of pee in his mouth for the rest of the day.
I'm talking about a much less known, more everyday real-life type of temperance. More importantly, I'm talking about sports temperance. Yes there is temperance in sports.... well at least if there's not temperance in sports, there's going to be a lot of pissed-off mothers at games. But for the most part, temperance is practiced in the great world of fandom.
Let's examine the definition of temperance: "Constant mindfulness of others and one's surroundings; practicing self-control, abstention, and moderation." Now it makes a lot more sense now. Let's get the obvious relations out of the way.
Constant mindfulness of others and one's surroundings is a great example. Others and one's surroudings is about 40,000 other people at a baseball game. Temperance teaches the best of fans to be respectful of them and realize you aren't the only one at the game.
Practicing self-control is still a somewhat self-explanatory relation to sports. Don't decide to just cuss at the other team's sports fans because you want to prove your team's better. No, most, and I want to emphasis most, fans can have self-control over what they do/say.
Abstention is a lot harder to immediately relate it to sports fandom because well drinking and smoking are what this was made for. But you do need abstention in being rude, being disrespectful, cussing, standing up when everyone else is sitting down, being obnoxious to the one's around you (does not apply for football or hockey), and getting in fights. Basically don't do any of those things and you've applied to the rules of temperance in fandom.
As to temperance's relation to faith and justice. Well in faith, temperance is being a moderate drinker, to abstain from smoking, and to not get addicted to anything. In legal justice, temperance is normally lacked when people get tried for going to jail. People can go to jail for murder (self-control), drinking and driving (constant mindfulness of the people around you), and smoking marijuana and cocaine (abstention).
Just as practicing temperance in sports could help your team win (by lifting their spirits and not getting them penalized), practicing temperance in life can help you go to heaven.
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