I'm Very Very Sorry!!!

'Sorry' ... I think it's one of the most widely-used words in the English vocabulary. We step on someone's feet, we say 'Sorry'. We bump into someone in a busy road, we say, 'Sorry'. 'Sorry' is everywhere like the invisible germs in the air. You never know when you're going to say this word and to whom. Like a silent assassin it waits for you patiently in some dark alleys of time to jump on a defenseless you.

Apology is the name of the feeling associated with 'Sorry'. Hundreds of years ago Shakespeare wrote 'Quality of Mercy' much to the fortune of the literary world (and to a great annoyance of mine, as it was in my course in school). Though I'm not much of a fan of poems, I liked the inherent message of the poem - that this quality blesses both the guilty one and the one who forgives. But these anyone hardly cares for the strong emotions behind this word. We use this now and then, like napkins.

It's high time that we realize the importance of this. We should say 'Sorry' and we should mean it.

 

Comments

[Sumit Jain]

I think the word sorry was invented by a person who had this habbit of doing wrong each time.I also believe that it was a man,afterall it becomes so easy and joyous to bump into a woman,say sorry and go...Of course at times you can get it wrong by hitting the wrong person who might beat you to death...No wonder they say sorry cannot make dead man alive but it can certainly make a live man dead...