The connection between sports and contemplation

How might one’s participation in “sport” or “leisure” help one understand the ultimate good or end of their life? What is the connection between “sport” and “contemplation”?

Sport can be defined as a human activity that man undertakes based on arbitrary rules and its aims at relaxation from the daily work. It provides amusement to the spiritual aspect of man hence can be considered a way of understanding the ultimate good or end of life. Sports is for its own sake, we realize that we don’t cause the existence of sport but it is there for us to just participate. Contemplation is the act of realizing interior self from what is unknown and seeking higher good. When we contemplate on the current life we realize that we know very little about the important things in life.

Ultimate good means an understanding of mans purpose in the world and sports can provide this through the order exhibited. The essential experience of sport is there for us to experience and reflect on higher things. Sport’s is an organized activity which provides an opportunity to contemplate on the need of order in our selves otherwise we cannot achieve the good we are seeking. Sport’s teaches us that there is a limit to human excellence; hence there is a higher good which man can attain.

Beholding of a good game helps in pure contemplation since we get engrossed in the intricate and mastery of the game. The uncertainty of the results makes us realize that there is a higher good that we do not know. During a game we leave aside our current situation and immerse ourselves in the game, and the joy derided makes one yearn for a higher good. If in a sport it is this good what of the ultimate good?

Sports provide a chance to engage in wonders of life   which sometimes can be lost in the engagements of work and other activities. It is in sport that we realize excellence hence become better people. In sports it is about adhering to the rules, hence the importance of certain virtues in the person. In each sport there is bar which has been set hence people strive to excel beyond the bar and be the best. This is like contemplation whereby the aim is to become better person, by turning on an interior life.

Contemplation is the highest form of activity that man can engage in, and sport has such a similarity. Good sport means seriousness and hard work because of the good which is to be obtained by participation. Contemplation frees us from normal wok so we can clearly and calmly see what not ourselves is. When we see others participating in a sport then we able to gauge where we are and at the same things for own sake and sport is.