I apologise quite a lot to people face-to-face when I think I've done or said the wrong thing. I don't really apologise on the Internet very much. Some people I've met apologise all the time, and some never at all. How's about you?
I try to be on top of it. Like in traffic for example when I do something stupid that almost causes a wreck a gesticulate wildly expressing that I'm very sorry I didn't mean to and all that. Also at home when I'm snippy about something and I know it, I try to go back to mom or dad (it's usually mom - she's more social) and apologize.
Only when I'm in the wrong will I apologize. I've been around too many people who will say "sorry" when they didn't even do anything worthy of an apology. People who say sorry all the time give me the vibe that they're timid and submissive.
i think an honest person appologises at appropriate opportunity for robbing others of thinking their own thoughts. though of course, not when doing so would itself have the same effect. its much better to look ahead and pay attention and take care to avoid creating any situation the would be appropriate to appologise for. an opology is great for the soul, or spirit feeling, however you want to say it, of the person apologising, but no amount of forgiveness can unsew, what has already been reaped. so really the best appology is to apply logic in the service of a universal and impartial consideration, and thus avoid causing the embarassment of unkindness. we're none of us purrfect, but it really doesn't take rocket science to accept the responsibility that is called having a conscious.
I was about to post a reply on this thread, but you beat me to it. In a nutshell, keeping my brain one step ahead of my mouth.
