Imperfection

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The author of Life is a Trip, known as Judith Fein, experiences travel in a life-changing meaningful way and decides to document her discoveries in said book. During her voyage she came across Guatemala and her curiosity instantly attached itself to a wooden figure wearing a top hat with a black coat known as Maximon. This venerated Mayan god almost always smokes a cigarette or large cigar, and his houses of worship is filled with burning candles, bottles of rum or Quetzalteca grain alcohol, and other offerings from his supplicants. These people described him as a saint, a devil, a doctor, a trickster, and so on. When overhearing a guide, Fein learns he is not only a divinity, but also a sinner who understands human vices, which is why he is able to forgive even those who have done terrible things. After this understanding, she decides to ask for complete absolution from Maximon, and only then is she able to forgive herself. When learning the satisfaction of it afterwards, she helps a friend of hers forgive himself by explaining the wonders of Maximon and the impossibility of obtaining perfection, similar to the god. One can only try, but we must forgive ourselves as well as each other for the errors we are bound to make. Maximon accepts people the way they are, imperfect.