a⋅pol⋅o⋅gy [uh-​pol-​uh-​jee] …Is it ever too late to give one?

An apol­ogy is defined as:

• A writ­ten or spo­ken expres­sion of one’s regret, remorse, or sor­row for hav­ing insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another: He demanded an apol­ogy from me for call­ing him a crook.

• A defense, excuse, or jus­ti­fi­ca­tion in speech or writ­ing, as for a cause or doc­trine.

This is even what an apol­ogy looks like mapped out:

This is what an apol­ogy sounds like:

But, how many of us take the time to give one. And what is the statute of lim­i­ta­tion on them? I thought of this recently because on Facebook sev­eral of my old class­mates have reached out to me and it reminded me of my old HS and col­lege days. While I con­sid­ered myself a good per­son back then I am guilty of some bad actions against peo­ple I con­sid­ered my friends back then.

For exam­ple at our last High School assem­bly before grad­u­a­tion I took part in putting neg­a­tive com­ments about a girl that I really didn’t know that was even­tu­ally read aloud on the stage dur­ing this assem­bly. Years later I remem­bered and I felt very guilty about it. I hap­pened to run into her at a store one day and I apol­o­gized to her. Of course she looked at me like I had lost my mind but I felt bet­ter hav­ing said it.

I find myself in that posi­tion again. I remem­bered some­thing I did to some­one and I feel very bad about it. Now mind you, I didn’t steal any­ones boyfriend or any­thing like that or kill some­bod­ies cat but I did treat them in a way that I am now ashamed of. The only thing is that it hap­pened about sev­en­teen years ago. If it were you would you go back and apol­o­gize? Or as One Republic says, “It’s too late to apol­o­gize”?


One Republic — Apologize

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