Do you ask sorry to your friend if you have hurt him or her?
By xorticanz
@xorticanz (377)
India
September 1, 2010 11:23am CST
I feel sorry immediately if i have hurt someone. I rarely do this as i control my anger a lot. One important thing in friendship is an attitude to ask sorry if mistake is at your side surely. Its the ego which we have to kill. If someone doesn't deserve that then i stand no to saying a sorry. In most cases i go straight and right at the eyes of them ask a sorry. My girlfriend loved me a lot due to that attitude first. She asked me why you ask sorry when u know very well that i did the mistake. I simply answered her that you will not do that again to me nor to any one in your life. I am straight forward guy and i have tons of friends where ever i go. Share your thoughts on the same.
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22 responses
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
2 Sep 10
Asking for forgive is the first step to recovering. Whether or not a person deserves it or not I have to be at peace with my conscious and well regardless if they accept it or not.
At the end of the day I can sleep comfortably knowing I tried.
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@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
1 Sep 10
If I know that I am the one who made mistakes I will always say sorry to them but If I am not the one who made mistakes I will not do it for them. Although I am straight person but I know where I place myself in terms of this issue. No need for me to apologize if I didn't do anything wrong to myself. My friends knew me about this and they are also aware about what will happened if they made mistakes to me. That is why they are the one who asked apology because if is not, I will prepare to stop our friendship than asking apology.
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@maphelepest (12)
• South Africa
2 Sep 10
Of course, apologizing, being forgiven and giving forgiveness are the best feelings one can ever experience. Apologizing to me is a sign that comes with humility and saying to the next person we all not perfect and we make mistakes. Being forgiven show how much the forgiver wants to still work on the relationship that was at stake be it a father to son or a husband to a wife and giving forgiveness is so liberating, paving ways for your success. Good for you keep the spirit of forgiveness alive
@kquiming (2997)
• Philippines
1 Sep 10
i only say sorry if i mean it and sincerely feel it. some people only say sorry just to end the argument / quarrel but i think that's just wrong. i have no problems admitting my own mistake and asking for apology but i would never say sorry to someone who has also done something wrong to me, but never asked for forgiveness
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@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
2 Sep 10
Yes i ask sorry if i realize that mistakes was mine.. so i ask sorry.. and if not mine.. then i also ask sorry.. because if i think that he/she is one of my good friend.. then it is our responsibility to remove all misunderstanding .. because this is one of main reason behind it to break friendship..
@airasheila (5454)
• Philippines
1 Sep 10
Hi Xorticanz,
With reference to your topic, my answer is yes. I do say sorry to a friend in both instances - one is, especially if I was the one who did wrong to him or her and second, though, I was not the one who did wrong, still, I am trying to say sorry. The reason behind is, for me, if that friend that I hurted is valuable to me. Then, I dont want to waste a single time without doing any reconciliation to him or her. Aside from that, time is so valuable, that we need to cherish it a lot.
You have nice topic.
Happy Mylotting.
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@raviteja_ravi84 (2620)
• India
1 Sep 10
Yes i do say sorry to my friends if i have made a mistake but when it comes to my closest friend or best friend and me then we don't have the need to ever say sorry to each for any reason. We trust each other a lot and we know that we won't ever lie or hurt each other's feelings no matter what happens. We have a pact between us maybe something like that. But till now me and my best mate have never had such a situation where one had to apologize to the other for 3 years now...
Cheers!
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@mauie0918 (337)
• Philippines
20 Sep 10
There is an old song saying, Sorry seems to be the hardest word!"
@girlaloosh01 (154)
• Philippines
2 Sep 10
When I was just in high school, there are several "small misunderstandings" that had happened in our group. Our mistake is that we tend to make our argument last for a long time even though the cause is not to be "big deal." We tend to wait for someone to ask forgiveness first. Yes, I admit it. We don't have the courage to ask forgiveness IMMEDIATELY AND SINCERELY from each one. :| I do not regret it, but instead, I just consider it as a lesson. And now that I am in college, we've already learned that those "childish" stuffs shouldn't last for a long time. If we've done something wrong, then we SAY SORRY IMMEDIATELY. :) So far so good, we haven't had any argument since our HS graduation up to this time. :D
@Vincentangelo (50)
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2 Sep 10
Always i say sorry to those people i hurt. Specially those people special to me and interact on me. I don't want to feel awkward particularly if i know we have misunderstanding. That is why as much as possible i reconcile and resolve conflict.
@cathloe (184)
• Philippines
23 Jul 11
you're doing the right thing xorticanz. i say sorry too to friends whenever i hurt them. i approach them straight forward and apologize for the mistake that i have done. there are also instances that i'd rather say sorry even if i'm not the one who started a certain issue in order not to lose the friendship i have with these certain types of people. for some reason, there would be instances that i'm very sure i'm not the one who should say sorry because i did not do anything to hurt him/her. but even though that's the case, as long as you want to value the friendship you have, you'll make a point that by the end of the day, you and your friend will get along as you do before.
i also encountered a friend who has a childish attitude. at first we were 3 in the group, then my other friend had her other friend to come with us because she has no one with her. so at first, i didn't know how to deal with her because i haven't known her yet but at a certain point, i got along with her just fine. we were 4 then. however one time, this childish friend of ours started to avoid talking to us. she doesn't want to have lunch together with us like we used to. we were so puzzled about her way of acting. as time came by, she did not come with us anymore for an unknown reason. she didn't said something that had hurt her.
then to cut it short, we end up approaching her to say sorry for whatever reason she had been upset about. she said sorry too. we were ok until now..
but the 3 of us thought that the reason she acted that way was because she was jealous that our attention was deviated from her.. may it that be the reason or not, at least we are still friends until now..
@vjsham (59)
• Malaysia
2 Sep 10
hey there,
I guess if we are guilty of what we did then we will have to ask for forgiveness no matter to whon it is. Its always our instinct that says 1\"go say sorry" or 2\"its not my fault,so y i shud say sorry"..I beleive in my instinct, so when its 1 then I will say sorry and it always been a good feel after doing so. On the other hands, my close friends n I dont exchange the word "sorry & thank you" as we beleive that within us there is a strong understanding in any situation..thats how it guess..i guess we should ask sorry when we are feeling guilty...
@thersdae_me (327)
• Philippines
2 Sep 10
i say sorry to friends when i know i hurt them, regardless if i didn't mean to. but for my best friends (coz i must admit i have three best friends including my sister), i really don't need to say so... it's like we both know and feel that enough is enough and that we need to end an argument or any dispute whatsoever. it comes out naturally that after a fight, we will just look at each other and that's it... we're settled and no one needs to say SORRY anymore. but that's only to my best friends! to other regular friends and relatives, i still say sorry and it does help... :)
@belleanna (25)
• Philippines
2 Sep 10
Yes,i say sorry to the one i hurt,but not all the time.LOLZ!At times i cannot say sorry because of my ego,especially when it is not my fault to do so,but i do realize saying sorry is not hard to say just to make things well.
@kukueye (1759)
• Malaysia
2 Sep 10
Yes i do said sorry and thank your with my friends.BEing a loner and few friends i do select my friends that suit my character which seldom happens so i just cherish whatever friends i have.For long , i have quit judging my friends hence whatever they did wrong to me , i forget about it , i notice because of that our friendship is longer and in better terms.
@qsccsq (32)
• China
2 Sep 10
i don't know how to say sorry when i was a child,and now i learn it.i think that is important to say sorry when i did the mistake