In Judith Fein’s book Life is a Trip she recounts 14
journeys where she had the opportunity to learn other cultures, experience new
places, and feelings. She calls it the transformative magic of travel. And so
she vividly transmits her experience to the readers and concludes that
traveling inevitably somehow changes us. The book simplifies the art of
traveling, in which the traveler connects with the new place, with its people
and with oneself.
One of her documented travels was Guatemala. There her curiosity was bound to a figurine representation of Maximon. This was a venerated Mayan god who can be inferred to represent the pleasures or addictions of the people and his supplicants. His description contains smoking, cigars, alcohol, etc. The people of Guatemala saw this god as many things and attributed him many roles. When Fein learns more about this God, she understood he was a divinity with an understanding of human vices and who masters the act of forgiveness. Here lies her lesson in this voyage which she later self-applied and shared with friends and fellow readers. Its imposible to be perfect, but one must keep in mind mistakes are bound to happen and one must accept them and forgive oneself. We have to accept ourselves the way we are and then we can truly be happy.
Perfection is something impossible, everyone one of us make mistakes and for that we must not considered ourselves less.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how their God is portrayed as unperfect as it is but somehow it makes since. How can a perfect being forgive those who sin over and over if it has never been forgiven ? It raises good questions.
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