TENDERING AN APOLOGY THE RIGHT WAY

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog at this hour. Good and cordial relationship with people can be great to reduce stress, loneliness, boredom and so on but on the other hand when there are conflicts between people who have shared good times together it may cause emotional breakdown, stress or even pain. However, broken relationships can be fixed with a simple apology - a well-timed one. If you suck at apologizing, then you may be prepared to spend some lonely and boring time alone due to your inability to tell your significant other, best friend or business partner "I'm sorry". Well, sit back, relax and enjoy all that I have packaged for your reading pleasure.

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No matter how angry a person is for your wrongdoings, a sincere apology that shows some sense of remorse, guilt and regret of your actions with some signs that you have learnt your lessons in a bitter way and you'd never let it repeat itself will go a long way in rebuilding a broken relationship. Nonetheless, you may not be able to apologize effectively if you do not acknowledge the fact that you are wrong. It happens so many times that we think that the other person is wrong and they should be the one to apologize.

I have had to stay days without speaking to my roommate in the university because we had a misunderstanding and none of us was willing to apologize. The moment one of us (him) decided to take the bold step of trying to resolve the issue, we felt some sense of relief - the atmosphere became more lively as opposed to the dull one that have taken the centre stage for days.

It is important to understand the art of knowing when to apologize. Not only knowing when to apologize but also knowing how (the right time) to apologize. Let's take for instance, if you know deep down in your mind that you did something either intentionally or unintentionally that would cause someone else to feel hurt, it is best to render an apology.

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This could be as simple as eating (stealing) your siblings portion of food or cheating your business partner. It may be helpful if you put yourself in the other person's shoes and see if you'd get hurt or not. While apologies can go a long way in resolving a conflict, most people shy away from tendering an apology, probably because of pride or just because it's somewhat difficult.

Above all, it is also important to let the person you are apologizing to understand that you regret your actions. Let your apologies show that you are really sorry and regret every bit of your actions and you'd never do the same thing again. I have seen people apologize causally and the tone of their voice would pass a message that they do not mean what they say. Let your gesture, and voice show that you are really sorry and not the other way around.

On a final note, sincere apologies are quite difficult and that's the reason close friends have turn sworn enemies, lovers have broken up, business partners have gone their separate ways but if a genuine and sincere apology is rendered it can mend all that have been broken.

All contents are originally written by me, @williams-owb

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Williams Oluseyi is a Linguist by discipline from one Africa's Most Prestigious Citadel of Learning, Obafemi Awolowo University. He developed interest for blogging at very early stage which motivated him to study English Language in College. He is a prolific writer, an inquisitive and judicious reader, to say the least. To get his daily bread, he is currently working in a Logistics company in Nigeria.

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