The current perpetual state of rain and cold has been making me quite happy, maybe because I’m a homebody, and I like cold.
I’ve been having to do a lot of work from home lately, so it just makes the ambiance nice and it makes me feel quite happy, if you get what I mean.
I’m here again to state a few things, and today, I want to talk about something that happened recently.
I don’t understand why it is always so difficult for people, when they do the wrong thing, to simply offer an apology, it’s not going to take anything away from you. I had an encounter recently where someone that o was in proximity to, kept hitting me by ‘accident’.
Initially, I didn’t say anything but this happened not once or twice but four times. I am not a confrontational person but I had to say something at this point. I said, “Ma’am, you do know you are hitting me, right?”
She claimed that she apologized, and let me just say that I did not hear an apology, not one, throughout this entire encounter.
I made a statement that “If you claim it’s an apology, and you say, you didn’t hear me respond, you can’t call it an apology then.” There has been no communication obviously, cause it’s a two-way street and she didn’t hear me reply or acknowledge said apology. But it also just points out to me that you know that what you did was wrong. Like, she was aware, and she just kept going.
After telling her that, I just let things slide. Water under the bridge you know. I just couldn’t help but dwell on what I had said in my speech, since the other party didn’t hear, how did you consider that an apology? No, it’s not.
And for me, when things like this happen, I tend to think about the fact that, if I’m holding certain people to a particular standard, whenever the situation comes, I also have to remember to stand by the standard.
Fast forward to a recent scenario, I wanted to get out of the car, and there was a car parked next to us.
I’m always careful when opening car doors when people are next to me, but I guess I didn’t get gauge well enough so my door hit the other car ever so slightly.
I don’t like it when people have any car is am in, it pisses me off, so, I didn’t write it off as nothing. I apologized, and I realized that the person didn’t acknowledge the apology, and I just had to knock on the window to point it out.
The person was so carried away on the phone that they didn’t notice the fact that the door had hit the car, but then like I said, it is also about holding myself to the same standard with which I hold other people.
I mentioned to someone that, ‘If I didn’t hear it, it is not an apology’. I have to make sure that whoever it is that I am apologizing to, clearly hears me. So, yeah, that’s my little something-something for today.
I hope you guys get to enjoy this beautiful weather in the same way that I am enjoying it right now.
And with that being said, Remember to spread nothing but love and keep reaching for the stars
