The Clumsy Astronaut

Stories of a mexican kid, who is a secondary character in his own story of adapting to college life and acculturation in the U.S.
Fri Jun 13

The Klutz with Car

Crashed my car, yes, again. After the insurance thing I went to church, yes church? why? I have no idea. It was wierd, as I have not set foot in to a church in probably 4 or 5 years, and that was for a weddin, so I don’t think it counts.

As I sat there, waiting for the father to disoccupy himself from talking about Jesus and Magic with a women in a wheelchair, I saw the porcelain figures I saw as a child, the Virgin Guadalupe, and somehow this church seemed so much bigger as a kid. “The Mythology of Catholicism” the man on the radio said “Most movies with that have religion in them ussually have catholocism, its just a very image based religion”. Imaged based it is. The Padre then spoke to me. Telling him how I felt out of synch he said that I needed some more god in my life, the same way that  a scissor salesman would say you need more scissor in you’re life. I rolled my eyes, discretely. But then he gave me the God works in mysterious ways. Everytime I have a car crash I think I do learn something. A lesson not on that list is “Stop crashing you’re car”, but I get more creative, I couldn’t write if my life depended on it. But the I said wait, I know I’m lazy, Irresponsible and a fuck up for a long time now. But the father explained to me that thats just learning, and I won’t correct those mistakes tomorrow.That I was already progressing by recognizing my errors. I went home happy, thinking I had gotten good advice.

On coming home, I rembered that catholicism is a religion where when you commit a sin you confess, and you are saved.

Soo….Back at Zilch