During a conversation, not only don't I have the courtesy to allow someone to finish their thoughts, when I do butt in, I don't know when to shut up. As in my drinking days, I am a repeat offender. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.
For those who were not altar boys in their youth, in my case, my very distant youth, Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that translates into English as "my fault", or "my own fault". To emphasize the message, the adjective "maxima" may be inserted, resulting in "mea maxima culpa," which would translate as "my most grievous fault."
It's been a long time for me, but Catholics have the ability to not only confess their sins, but to also receive absolution. When I was much younger, I would confess things like "yelling at my parents". Of course I always ended with the generic: "and I lied a lot". I probably was lying as I blessed myself mumbling that I was "truly sorry". I wasn't a big one for bearing my soul with honest revelations. I would confess "I'd like to kill my father, the neighbor's dog, or my math teacher" without too much hesitation. But something like "masterbation", I don't think so. I do seem to remember that around Christmas I would include some mention of "impure thoughts". Covering the bases! I probably read somewhere that excessive masturbation could lead to poor spelling, such as the inability to spell masturbation correctly.
I'm not a serial killer, and I haven't traveled the back roads robbing banks like Clyde, with his lovely Bonnie. I've killed my share of small birds and animals. Who hasn't? Raise your hand if you've never covered frogs with lighter fluid, then set them on fire. The rich kids torched the bags with dog crap. We offered living sacrifices to the gods of perversity.
As I reach the last years of my journey on this planet I've come to realize that if I could just bite my tongue, if I could only learn to "shut up", I could improve my relationships with my fellow travelers. Some of them have already passed, and some more probably will before I face the final judgment. None of them are going to rise from the grave and yell "he had a huge collection of hard porn" or "he cheated on the English final". At least I don't think so. But I do know, if there is an afterlife, they all will line up and even god won't be able to shut them up. They'll make up for lost opportunity because, when alive, I never gave them a chance to finish a sentence. And when verbal diarrhea runs its course, all bets are off. So, not knowing what these poor, angry, pent up souls will have to say, I offer my Act of Contrition:
"O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss of Heaven, and the pains of Hell; but most of all because I love Thee, my God, Who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen."
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