Sunnyskies92, thank you for giving us a reason to employ one of our all-time favorite phrases: Sorry we're NOT SORRY.—Sparkitors
To all of my fellow females: do you ever find that “sorry” is on your top-ten-list-of-most-used-words of all time? I sure do. I try to be polite, I try to be convenient, I try to be the girl who's so nice that she never blames anything on other people, only on herself. Sounds like the perfect woman, right?
Pass the barf bag. It’s time this madness stopped.
This morning, I spent about an hour ranting to my girl friend about this guy I know, “Chase” (maybe some of you remember him from my last post). Right after I said goodbye and exited out of Skype, a most peculiar article appeared on my newsfeed. And it got me thinking: what do I spend my time apologizing for?
This morning, I said sorry to my sister and her friends because I interrupted their study session to offer them cookies I had made.
A couple of days ago, I said sorry to my roommate for being in her way in the bathroom, while I was washing her dishes in the sink.
At the beginning of the school year, I apologized to the woman who was measuring me for my choir dress for not being thin enough to fit into a size four. I told her I was sorry for not being thin enough.
And Chase. Oh, Chase. If I could count the times I’ve said sorry to him…okay, I’m not a math major. But I have realized that in an effort to make him like me, to not get in his way, and to avoid arguments that should have happened ages ago, I apologize until I am foaming at the mouth.
So I'm so sorry for wanting what's best for you, Chase, and I'm really sorry for trying to help you to realize what that is. I promise, I won't ever bother you again, unless of course you want me to. I'm at your disposal completely, don't even think for a second that I deserve to be treated better than that.
It’s time to stage an “I’m sorry” intervention. Apologizing at the drop of the hat is not going to make anyone like us. All it’s going to do is give guys, and everyone else for that matter, a reason to feel like there is something wrong with us, something that we should be apologizing for. I don’t know about you, but I’m going to stop apologizing to men for being the beautiful, intelligent, compassionate, and down-to-earth chick that has the ability to rock this world, not just apologize for living in it.
Do you apologize too much?
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Topics: Life
Tags: relationships, confidence, apologies, apologizing, saying sorry, standing up for yourself
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