The way I see it, if you’re not apologizing at least once a week something’s wrong. Unless you’re really isolated. For every point of contention there are two sides. If you multiply the number of contentious points about life (which range in the thousands for couples and countries, to even one or two for your average coffee order) times the number of people in the world and divide by two (the number of sides represented at one time), you’ll get that the average person is wrong 50% of the time.
So if you find yourself having hundreds of miscommunications, frustrations, or irriations in a row without apologizing? By the law of averages you probably should have thrown an “I’m sorry” out there when you didn’t.
Apologies are not signs of weakness in your self-belief; they are testaments to your belief in others.
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