Such Is Life

Atonement, people.  Atonement.  This is no laughing matter.  Atonement is serious business.  No matter what religion we are or aren't, no matter what we believe or disbelieve, there's so much to atone for, it never stops.  After all, we're human, and humans eff up on a daily basis.  We drop, we spill, we trip, we give dirty looks to strangers, we curse idiot drivers who should have their licenses revoked, we speak ill of others, we gossip, because what could be more fun than that, we make small mistakes, big mistakes, monumental mistakes.  We judge, we pre-judge, we misjudge.  We say the wrong thing.  Such is life on planet Earth.

As a nice instructor at my health club likes to say, the only perfect people are dead people.  Still, some of us want to be perfect, anyway.  This is a no-win situation, one that keeps us coming back, year after year.  Today, as I sit in temple, I will atone for being human, as opposed to canine, which would complicate my life even more.