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Saying sorry will never kill you and it will make peace reign around you from time to time. Unlike what many other people think about saying sorry if you are the type that says sorry it doesn't make you a fool. I have always taken people who say sorry to be wise and mature people.
The word "Sorry" is just a five-letter word but it goes a very long way in many situations and that is why anytime we are wrong we should always say sorry to the person we wronged whether the person is young or old. It is very important to say the word "sorry" because you don't what the future has in store for us.
It is a very small word and but not saying it has ruined a lot of relationships and it makes me wonder why people will refuse to say that little word at the expense of their relationship with people. If you are feeling too big to say sorry to people you wronged especially friends and family, it means you never valued what you share with them.
People will start taking you as a proud person and before you know it, they will start detaching themselves or avoiding you.
I am a very blunt person and at the same time I make peace always because I can't hold grudges with people, it makes me feel sick.
If I have a misunderstanding with my fiancee or my family and I don't talk to them for an hour, I usually have a headache because a lot of things will be running through my mind which will make me restless so instead of letting that happen, I quickly say sorry even if am not wrong but the fact that I want to make peace will make me apologize to them.
My elder sister brought her pastor's daughter to our place of work because she needed a job.
I was on the same shift as her so we became close, we do arrive at work together and left together as well.
On a fateful day, I took 2 sachets of noodles from work to eat at home because there were no foodstuffs again in our house and it wasn't the end of the month yet.
This girl took some noodles as well which I don't bother to ask her why.
On getting to the gate, our bags were searched and we didn't know that our friend who was security has signed out before we closed so we were caught.
The guy who caught us was kind, he told us to apologize and promise him that we don't do such again because it was against the company's rules.
I didn't think twice before I apologized because I still need my work but if I don't go home with the noodles I will be hungry throughout the day.
He allowed me to go then I face the other girl and told her to apologize so that the security guy can let her go as well but she refused.
The guy captured her picture with the sachet of noodles in her hands. He told her to leave and never to return to the factory.
I went to her house to inform her parents and her mom supported her by saying "ibi ta tin se la tin je" in English (it is where you work so you can take out of the product).
Her dad didn't support her, he told her to go back and say sorry for taking something without permission but she refused to do that. She insisted that she did nothing wrong and because of that, she stopped going to work.
She started lying to people that she got admission to the university that was why she quit.
Some people believed her because she's a pastor's daughter, she will go out from morning till night to God knows where, and when she comes back home she will lie that she was coming from school which is very clear to me and my sister that she was not in school.
One day she fainted during the Sunday service and she was rushed to the hospital only to find out that she was pregnant.
If only she had said sorry like I did, she might still have her work back and she won't have thrown her life away just like she did.
No position you hold in life should prevent you from saying sorry when you should.
If someone knows how to apologize whenever he or she is wrong such a person will always have peace of mind and will never go down the wrong path in life.