Football teaches patience: ninety minutes to discover what shouting never changed.
— The Sage
The Sage has always enjoyed football, though not always for the reasons others do. He watches the game with an amused calm, noting how crowds invest enormous emotional effort into events entirely beyond their control. For ninety minutes, voices rise, opinions harden, and advice is generously offered — none of which, he quietly observes, alters the outcome in the slightest.
Rather than mocking this ritual, The Sage finds something oddly beautiful in it. Football becomes a shared exercise in patience, frustration, and hope. It teaches us how deeply people care, even when caring makes no practical difference at all. The shouting, he says, isn’t about influence — it’s about belonging, release, and the comfort of collective suffering.
In the end, The Sage suggests that football’s greatest lesson isn’t strategy or skill, but acceptance. You watch, you feel, you shout — and then you let go. The game ends exactly as it was going to, and life carries on. Learning this, he believes, is patience in its most enthusiastic form.
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