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Old 21-11-2007, 08:48 AM
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Nor, because he is a therapist does not make him right. Like all of us who exist here, some things are fact, some are opinion. His statement about apologizing is opinion, not fact. Why? Because the very word apologize has a definitive meaning to it, being that you're sorry for an act you did. Now for example; if someone hit you, you hit them back to defend yourself, they said sorry for hitting you; is it necessarily correct that you apologise for hitting them back to defend you just because they apologised? I don't think so... especially if your not sorry and that is not what you feel. If you say what you feel, then that is not wrong. What is wrong is to say what may be seen as politically correct, or socially correct, though not necessarily correct for what you feel.

Every time you have walked away from something, done the socially correct thing, though then cursed and cussed because that is not what you felt, you did the wrong thing in your own mind due to your own feelings.

Obviously there are rights and wrongs to this, and one must exercise judgement within the confines of all laws to entice and maintain peace within their community, ie. because you feel like killing someone, that is not the right thing to do as its a criminal offence. Though alternatives exist to use words and express how you truly feel, not just say something to please others.

Trust your gut, trust what your body is telling you....
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