Missed Opportunities

A Catholic coworker of mine asked if we take the Eucharist every Sunday at church. While we were talking about it, he asked if I’d taken Communion during the times I’d been to Mass. I said I hadn’t, because when they went through the four questions beforehand, I could only answer “Lord, I do believe” to the two about Jesus and God, not the two about the Catholic Church and the Pope. He asked if I’d gone up to get a blessing, and I said I hadn’t because I hadn’t known then that I could. He said, “You could have gotten a blessing!” and I said, “Man, who knows how successful I would have been in life if I’d done that.” That was funny to us because I’m so obviously unsuccessful.

Today I learned of another failure in my life: I’m not included on the Wikipedia list of “People from Pennsylvania.” Maybe that phony-baloney blessing was all I needed to make the list.