"Less is More." The Cardinal Virtues Part Two
Temperance (The Cardinal Virtues Part Two) Temperance by Baroque artist Luca Giordano I remember my first hangover. I was twenty-five, and I thought to myself, “This feels like I have a head cold. My face feels all hot and flushed. My nose is stuffed up, and I'm tired. I'm not doing this again.” Less than a month later I did it again, and had the same results. Since then I'd not had a hangover. I have the occasional drink, but never to excess. I guess that makes me an aberration, because in America people pride themselves on how much they can drink, and how drunk they can get. I remember in high school I'd overhear kids brag about how “F—ed up” they were going to get on Friday night. It almost seemed to be a place of pride for them to get so plastered they'd not remember their own zip code. We all go through that phase when we first start drinking. After a while we learn that drinking isn't about the destination, it's about the j...