On the Tube I say sorry for bumping into someone.
I'm not really sorry, because it's crammed,
but that's the only time I say sorry when I don't actually mean it.
I think I said sorry this morning,
when I was planning to meet Ellie at 11 o' clock,
and it was 11:15, so I apologised for being late.
Can't remember the last time I said sorry for something major.
I'm not very good at saying sorry.
As human beings I think we all consciously
say sorry to make ourselves feel better.
The first thing I say, sorry,
and then I probably feel very bad and I do try and do something nice.
I wouldn't buy them a teddy bear or anything special,
I would just in the long term make it right
and be more attentive
and kinda look after them a bit more than I did before.
I think words can go a long way when you're saying sorry
in terms of what you actually express to someone.
It's not the easiest thing to do as well, saying sorry.
Because you don't want to accept your own mistakes,
and when you say sorry to someone, you accept that you're not perfect,
and everybody tries to be perfect.
People may have pride get in the way,
it's quite an important lesson to learn to do it.
I definitely think sorry's just the first part of the process,
and forgiveness is essential,
having acceptance and acknowledgement of the person saying,
'I forgive you, let's put that aside and start afresh',
I think that's all part of forgiveness.
The reason for apologising is you want some sort of redemption.
I think that's why we do it.
So, if the person doesn't forgive you, it's like,
I really screwed up, didn't I?
That's how relationships progress, isn't it?
If you don't have forgiveness, understanding, trust,
then it can't really go any further than that.
If you don't apologise immediately,
or kind of straight away,
then things just get worse and actually bridges more of a gap.
Saying sorry might have been a really big blow for your ego,
and therefore you might feel diminished,
disrespected in a way, that you had to say sorry and you're not forgiven.
I think we need to say sorry to people,
not only for ourselves, but also it makes a difference to the person.
So you're showing that you want to change
and as human beings we all make mistakes,
but I think it's really important that we also change our mistakes,
and the way to do that is to say sorry.
I think it's just a human need to apologise
for something that was wrong or try to make things better
because we all thrive to make life easier for each other.