Today was a relaxing day without much homework. It will not be quite the same tomorrow as we have a hockey game in the state finals against rival school CBC. Should be more than interesting. As a sort of prelude or preview, I've decided to use the humility side of sports.
It's needed in every sport. If you're too cocky, you probably will not succeed at what you're doing. This happens many times. Just look at current NFL star wideout DeSean Jackson prematuraly celebrating a TD while he was at California. On this TD, he tried a flip but landed short of the TD by a yard. In college, once you hit the turf, you're down so Jackson did not get a touchdown. He didn't because he lacked humility. And in return he was humiliated.
I'd have to say the same about DeSmet hockey tomorrow against CBC. Although, I'm doubting they lack humility as they are considered huge underdogs in the game. But they can be confident. There is a key difference.
Humility especially plays a key factor in a sport as teamwork-oriented as hockey. In sports, humility might as well be renamed teamwork. Humility is to have the modest behavior that you're not better than anyone else and therefore are willing to pass the ball when you need to.
Humility is being selfless and not worrying about yourself. You could say the same about a successful, teamwork-oriented hockey team. You have to be selfless. You can't try and move around three guys even if you think you can and instead make the safe pass where your teammate has a legitimate shot a goal.
Since I am angling towards a hockey theme this blog, why stop? In hockey, there is justice Maybe there is a missed call from those referees, but justice ultimately is served when players retreat to the penalty box. They committed an illegal offense, for lack of a better term, against another player and are getting payback by sitting out two to five minutes and making their team short-handed.
Even regarding to fighting, most of the time a fight occurs as "payback" to something another person did. This fits the political and economical and largely public definition of justice. But it does not fit to the religious form of justice, because payback and justice don't go together. Payback isn't justice in religion. Its revenge. And revenge is an evil act in religion.
Maybe a bad example, but Satan became Satan as revenge to God not allowing him more control... or so the theory goes in the story. Is it a true or false story? Doesn't matter, because it fits what I'm trying to aim for which is that fights in hockey aren't justice because its payback. And payback isn't justice.
In class today, we saw some effects of the world upon us through video and some interesting stats. My main question through it all was: How does affect our lives?
In a literal sense, I don't believe it does at all. We are not literally connected to any of the happenings in Africa, the poor in other countries, or even in our own. At least DeSmet students aren't directly or literally affected by it.
In a moral sense, we are affected because we are expected to sympathize and give to the poor. I guess the main question then is how am I, a nobody from St. Louis, suppose to change the lives of the millions of poor. I guess the true answer is, get rich, and then donate to them, and maybe even adopt some children. But as teenagers, I think the better answer would be to give when you can in the future. At the moment, I don't think we can do anything about it right now. Maybe in the future we can though.
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