What's in an apology?

Apologies abound around the world. Presidents, the Popes, heads of state, heads of organizations, celebrities and unknowns have "stepped up to the plate" to apologize.

My question is why?

A sincere, humble apology for the harm one has done, perpetrator to victim is the beginning of justice.

A mass apology from an individual for events and transgressions decades or centuries long past is madness. Why are gownups acting like this? People who appear to be sane are doing it. It's not an act of sanity.

For an apology to have any meaning, it must be given from the perpetrator of the wrong deed to the recipient of the harm in such a way that it at least mitigates, if not rectifies the harm done.

The apologies are flying through the air for deeds and misdeeds as long ago as several hundred years and more. Mass apologies remind one of the *air kiss* familiar to most of us. It's patently false and means absolutely nothing.

The fact that this is all done by supposedly mature adult people is appalling. One has NOTHING to apologize for in this life except to God and to those whom one has harmed in some way.

For those who expect apologies for deeds done and undone in the past not directly related to themselves, please worry about your sanity. The whole idea is DAFT!!! You do not owe apologies to people whom you've never met and whom you have not harmed.

Apologizing for things you haven't done isn't the act of a sane, thinking person. Nobody calm, in their right mind does things that have no meaning.


Apologizing for things YOU haven't done and over which YOU have had no control is NOT an act of sanity. If you're doing this or if you're expecting this, you need to worry about your mind. You're out of it!