What is The Best Apology / Forgiveness You've Received.

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What is the best apology you received (whether you were in the wrong or not) , or forgiveness you received for a past transgression.


I went to a gig once and got a bit carried away and jumped on stage at the start of the first song. I was going to stage dive but when I looked at the front row (where I was going to land) they were all 14? year olds. There was no way I was going to land (15 stone of me) on these kids without hurting them, so I scanned the crowd for a safe landing spot, by this time one of the roadies had run on stage and tackled me, we both fell into the pit at the front of the stage. The lead guitarist jumped off stage into the pit as well, don't know who he was trying to help, but because of this some people at the front of the crowd grabbed his guitar and broke his strings. I was forcefully ejected from the venue and the band never finished the first song and moved on.
I digress but years later I bought some memorabilia of the band from the rhythm guitarist's girlfriend and I asked her to pass on a sorry message to the band for my behaviour years ago. I received the memorabilia in the post with a signed photograph stating that I was forgiven for Bristol ( where the gig was) - made my year

I'll post a photo of the memorabilia when I find it.

^

Apologies:

My partner's apology, and all that entailed. Still entails.

A heartfelt letter of apology from a moderator which will be framed.


Open communication after a situation:

Magna, Llama, TP.

Still waiting for an apology for some of the shittiest moments of my life
I'm not holding my breath.

The band story is cool tho.

Or maybe just accept it will never happen and move the f**k on.

It wasn’t a sincere apology, but I was shocked when my ex admitted what his goals and thinking were all along. I think he was trying to demonstrate that he changed or something.

I was beyond shocked when my brother apologized from the heart for shunning me and said that it was wrong. He was always the perfect child, the perfect JW. I’ve never been right about anything.

Best forgiveness I've received came from my middle daughter. In a lot of ways, I was a total crap parent. My stress levels left me with nothing left in me more times than I care to admit. Some time back, she and I were talking and I said something about being a sh** parent and how I was sorry she had to deal with my crap...that I wished I had handled things better back then. She told me I wasn't a sh** parent and that she knew I did the best I could for them and that she knew/knows I tried and that I loved/love her.

Best apology goes to the (maybe still) fwb. He did something some time ago that got on my last nerve and I was pissed. Instead of making excuses, justifying, argue it, any of that crap, he just listened and told me I was right and he was sorry. I was floored. I'm not used to people doing that with me. To say it was appreciated would be an understatement.

^^You clearly did a lot right as a parent that you're unaware of.

Can’t think of a one.
Oh well.
In my mind I’ve made numerous apologies to people I believe I wronged.

An apology from a childhood friend.

It's a type of apology that's not from a form of obligation or lipservice, it's not from this so called humility and rank dynamics.

It's not some social lubricant to ask forgiveness over one's natural human flaws of being imperfect.

It's something more sincere, something that needs actual bravery, the type that needs to go past the ego -- not a distance from the ego like detachment and humbleness does.

Definitely not a form of stupid script that was neither enforced by either of our respective parents or expectations of anyone.


I can't remember what we had fought over.
But whatever it was, we both want this apology.


And this was the only one so far.

As for anyone forgiving me? Nothing.

Just passive leniency.
No different than a child doing weird stuff as socially acceptable. It's the cost of being able to have a certain status.

Still based on social rank and dynamics, still based on a form of obligation, still a form of 'humility' by those who are 'more patient' than I'm.
This is not a form of forgiveness that's coming from an equal.

Because in their eyes, I had done 'no wrong' because I'm 'innocent'.

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