Benjamin Franklin thought of thirteen virtues he had to follow in order to reach moral perfection. The three I chose to follow for the past three days were temperance, silence, and justice. Temperance meant that I could not overeat or get drunk. Silence meant I could only speak kind things about myself and others. Justice meant I could not commit any crimes. I began following temperance and did fine on Thursday. However, on Friday my friends and I had visited a cute restaurant called Teriyaki Me and I, having been starved the whole day, ordered a huge plate of food and after finishing it all did not feel good until the next day.
I thought I should challenge myself and do something I knew would be difficult for me. Following silence, I decided to speak only beneficial things about myself and others. I found myself breaking that rule not a while after deciding to do it. I am not an optimistic person, so talking only beneficial things about myself was quite hard. I succeeded the part of talking good about others longer than talking good about myself. I, however, did not succeed fully about talking good about others when my friends began engaging me in their gossipy conversations.
The third and final virtue I had chosen, justice, was quite easy for me to overcome. This was the only one I committed to all throughout the days and I am hoping I will commit to it for the rest of my life. I do not enjoy hearing about crimes and I would never engage in committing one. I could not live with the idea of even verbally hurting someone, worse, hurting them physically. This was not a difficult task and I am glad I completed at least this very important one.
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