Forgiveness: The fine art of the apology

Apologizing or asking people for forgiveness is not easy. It’s not easy to admit we’ve made mistakes or failed at something. It can be done though and it doesn’t have to be as painful as you think. Believe it or not, apologizing can be quite cathartic and, as long as you didn’t go too far off the deep end, the people you love will probably forgive you.

The other day I had a really pathetic meltdown. Everything in my life seemed to be going wrong at the moment and I was at the point where I was feeling stressed out and pretty wretched. I know that’s not an excuse when it comes to what happened next and once it was done there was no taking it back.

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All of a sudden I got the feeling that I was all by myself in the world. It didn’t seem like anyone really cared about me or my problems. So, this is what I did.

I pulled up my Facebook account and posted the following message. These are the words I used verbatim and just let me tell you up front I’m not proud of it one bit:

So tired of all my fake friends and “family” members on here. Who needs you f**kers. Bunch of flakes and losers. Every single one of you b**ches can unfriend me.

Yes, that’s what I really posted. Even though it made me feel a quick rush of self-righteous glory in the few fleeting moments after I posted it, when…