Sorry for being Sorry
“No! There is no need to say sorry. What’s the point of saying sorry if you’ll do it all over again? You know sorry is a cliche… You just feel like you can say sorry and get away with it, and come tomorrow, there you will be, disturbing my class again…”
The lecturer droned on and on, and just I sat there, feeling confused. So, I made a mistake. I was talking to the guy next to me. Okay, I get it. My bad. Sorry! But wait, so it appears that sorry doesn’t go down well with you. It won’t work because you believe that sorry is a cliche. It kind of is, yeah, but here is a look at the vast number of options I now have that I have committed such a sin,
- To say sorry.
- To stay quite
- Run out of the class. (My personal favorite- I wish I had done this)
Saying Sorry- which is what I did, but apparently, that won’t work over here. Okay, my bad again. Sorry for being Sorry. The next one up on the list is staying quite- Should I have tried that? Well I didn’t. Because that sucks more than saying sorry. What if you are like the other kind? The ones who will shame you for not even saying sorry.
Let me explain. Basically, there are two types of teachers in this world; one who criticize you for being sorry for your mistake, and the other one, who say that you don’t even have it in you to say a little “sorry”.
You made a mistake, okay, everyone does. But you can’t even say a little sorry?
There is a very thin line between the two and to be honest, it’s fricken hard to know which is which. You have a better chance of winning the lottery than guessing the correct kind. Even if you are willing to chance your luck, there is also the third incredibly rare kind. The kind you won’t even set upon on your enemies- the irrefutables.
Irrefutable (noun): A teacher who loves to one-up his/her students in their own game. Say sorry? How dare you! You are going to do it again, definitely, so why are you saying sorry? Stay quite? You should be ashamed for not even bothering to say sorry.
It might be a little difficult to get your head around to this kind of people. Luckily, I just started learning JavaScript and I am quite happy to report that these people can be easily programmed in just a few lines of code.
Note: Tech-unsavvy people can skip this part while really tech-savvy people can try out the code. Just remember to re-type the inverted commas as Medium likes to mess with those, making them unreadable to code editors.
var a =confirm(“Are you sorry?”);
if(a){
alert(“How dare you say sorry? What’s the point of it anyway now that you have done it and you will do it all over again? It’s a cliche.”)
}
else{
alert(“You should be ashamed of yourself for not even being sorry.”)
}
So back to the point- I ask all the three types of teachers, what do you want me to do? Mistakes happen. I am not a robot. I tend to get unfocused. I tend to get distracted but what do you want me to say when I DO? Do you want to hear me sing along to “Let it Go”? I have heard me sing, and I can give you expert advice on that one; stick to the “Sorry”.
Fun Fact: The word “sorry” has been used 24 times in this article. 26 times if you count the picture and this fact.
