Apologies

[JuanHamm]

How often do you find yourself apologizing?

Are you good at it?

Will you apologize if you're not wrong to smooth things over?

Will you refuse to apologize when wrong? (Damn your pride)

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Jorge]

Maybe once a month?

Yeah sure

Depends on the situation but sure. I have

Sometimes it takes me a while but I tend to come around

[Monkey_Driven]

How often do you find yourself apologizing?

Are you good at it?

Will you apologize if you're not wrong to smooth things over?

Will you refuse to apologize when wrong? (Damn your pride)

Often. Daily?

Depends on the person

Um...

No, I'm usually quick to admit I'm wrong

[warehouse]

multiple times a day
i'm fucking awesome at it
fuck yes
rarely

[dad]

How often do you find yourself apologizing?

Are you good at it?

Will you apologize if you're not wrong to smooth things over?

Will you refuse to apologize when wrong? (Damn your pride)

once a day. sorry, maybe more than that.

i'm not, sorry.

fuck no. sorry, i shouldn't have answered like that.

sorry, i'm not wrong often. so, no. sorry.

[Mickey]

How often do you find yourself apologizing?

Are you good at it?

Will you apologize if you're not wrong to smooth things over?

Will you refuse to apologize when wrong? (Damn your pride)

Whenever it’s warranted

Yes I’m great at it, when it’s warranted

No way

No way

LMFAO

[epilogue]

How often do you find yourself apologizing?

Are you good at it?

Will you apologize if you're not wrong to smooth things over?

Will you refuse to apologize when wrong? (Damn your pride)

Often

Yes

Yes

No

[Higgs]

Gotta own your mistakes. If I need to apologise I tend to do so pretty quickly and reasonably well. I stuff up fairly regularly I guess, so this happens reasonably often - at least weekly.

Interestingly I find it far easier to apologise in a professional setting than a personal one. I mean that if my error/omission is work related I tend to find it simple to apologise and do so quickly. Personal problems seem to take me longer to get around to. Its crazy how we allow ourselves to take advantage of those that are closest to us.

Having said that I literally just apologised to the most important person in my life just last night. I feel better for it, I always do.

[spike]

never apologize professionally

[Higgs]

never apologize professionally

I run my own small accounting practice and have a really great relationship with the vast majority of my client base. With what's been going on in my personal life these past 6 months I've not prioritised my clients as much as I always had in the past and on occasion that has warranted apology from my end. I'm cool with it.

If I was working in the guts of a big corporate environment though? Nah, wouldn't be apologising there. That would just be a sign of weakness that would have the sharks circling for whatever feed they were after from me that day. Big time corporate environments can go suck a bag of dicks.