It goes against our prideful nature to apologize and then I take it a step further and am saying I am actually grateful for opportunities to apologize! And I'm being truthful. I am grateful for the times when I have a responsibility to apologize for my actions and/or words. I am grateful that opportunities for humbling myself come my way. It would be easy to claim (they would be false claims) that I am above apologizing, it would be easy to blame shift (which many do) so that I never need to apologize. But in behaving in those ways I deny myself the opportunity to grow in character, I damage relationships, and I live on an island of self-deception. So while it may go against my prideful nature to apologize I am grateful when an opportunity arises to practice it, even though I am usually regretful and chagrined that I engaged in a behavior that made the opportunity arise!
"We realized that the important thing was not the film itself but that which the film provoked." Fernando Solanas
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