That overused adjective

Sorry.

Seems to be the hardest word.

Is all that you can say.

For party rocking

Is a sorry word after all I’ve done for you, baby.

Does anyone else have the same weird taste in music?

I remember as a child, growing up how often I’d mess things up. Whether it’s spilling water on the pristine kitchen floor or stepping on my classmate’s freshly coated school shoes (remember, Kiwi white shoe polish, guys?) At these very moments, I’d automatically blurt out the word ‘sorry’.

Do you realize that it doesn’t seem enough these days? It is not sufficient to merely just verbalize the two syllable word. Even if you meant to apologize from the very bottom of your soul, you’d still be met with a death stare for your accidental wrongdoings.

Have you ever bumped into someone by mistake while getting on or off our wonderful trains? Let’s pretend you are really sincere about causing someone that physical impact from your buff shoulders, so you turn and say ‘sorry’. What you would probably get in return is a furrowed brow, a ‘tsk’ or (best ever) nothing, as that person has already decided you’re not worth their time.

These days, when you say sorry, you’d have to follow up with an attempt to rectify the problem, or provide a flustered excuse. ‘Sorry’ just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Accidently bump into someone, spilling their drink? “OHMAGAWD, I’m SO sorry, let me get that for you” grabs napkin to dab “I don’t know what’s come over me, I must be blind, not being able to see you”

Received a missed call. “OHMAGAWD, I’m SO sorry I missed your call. I must have left my brain at home or something, I can’t BELIEVE I didn’t hear your call”

Elbow brushes someone’s boob. “OHMAGAWD, don’t call the cops, it was an accident, honest! I would never purposely touch your body, not that your body isn’t worth touching, I mean, your body is not not untouchable, I mean….OHMAGAWD the cops!”

It’s become so much of a norm that people expect you to depreciate your self worth in an attempt to rectify the problem.

The only people that seem happy just saying ‘sorry’ are those in the customer satisfaction industry; support staff that respond robotically when you complain about the lousy pizza that was delivered to you or security personnel when they tell you that the lift that brings your overweight self to the 29th floor of your apartment broke down. It’s a programmed output for any variable that has a frustrated nature (all the engineers in the house say heeeeyyyyy *crickets*)

Somehow, ‘sorry’ seems to be the easiest word for only them.

Is this post too long a rambling?

Well, I’m sorry.