Thursday, April 14, 2011

When saying sorry is wrong!!!

We often run into situations where we get apologies from someone who has wronged us in one way or the other, we naturally want to forgive the offender but once in a while or more often like it is these days we have a situation where we are deliberately or to be more accurate we are carelessly wronged or we are wronged with total disregard, wronged by someone repeatedly; these situations are so rampant these days and one begins to wonder if the offenders do not have regard for you or for themselves as the case may be, one really wonders the values we have for our actions these days, not to mention the quality of humans that parade around today, how else do you explain the action of someone stepping on you repeatedly and each time tells you sorry casually with the attitude written all over his/her face, “what else do you want” these actions makes you wonder what we ought to do to people who do not realize that the word sorry should be used with care and humility, retaliate or allow this to continue?
This situation reminds me of the saying in a novel by Maria Correli –Vendetta, in which a character makes this statement “Christ never loved a woman, had he, he would have left us with a special code of justice”. Before the “Born again” crucify me, I would like to point out that the character in question was not talking about platonic love, having said that, I will like to move straight to my point which is that if these offenders where examined in the pre-bible times we might have a holy and biblical or even Koran acceptable ways of handling such people, it really gets on my nerve when people have no disregard for others well-being and yet they expect you to show much love to this same people. I would really like to cut of a leg that has stepped on me more than twice, but I know I will be reminded of the famous 70 X 7 times “statement by Jesus, but frankly speaking I do feel the urged to get back at the individual that assumes he/she can inflict any form of discomfort on me and get away with it.
Our action goes a long way to determine who we are, and how we get along in life, let’s examine what happens to the simple action we take when we indulge in such careless and disregarding acts repeatedly. Firstly if while driving you see a friend and stop at the middle of the road in other to exchange greetings with your friend, while other road users are blaring their horn behind you and you pay no attention to them simply because you are a police commissioner or a local government chairman, or one of those local champions

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