As I do more and more work on forgiveness, I increasingly think about my past and what I need to forgive or be forgiven for.
We have all done things in our lives that I'm sure if we could do it again differently, we would. Sadly this isn't often possible but we can try and make some reparation for our past. Today I was thinking about saying sorry for some of the things I have done to family and friends and I came across a dilemma..
Are some of the things I want to apologise for going to bring up more harm than good? If things that have happened in the past, which I haven't yet apologised for, should I now?
I worry that to say sorry now may for some people just be irrelevant or unhelpful because it is no longer something that they dwell on whilst at the same time I think that perhaps saying sorry late is better than saying sorry never...
I've also thought that saying sorry now is selfish because it is to relieve myself of guilt.
But I've decided to take the bull by the horns and just go with it. I'm going to apologise to those I feel I owe it to and yes it is partly to make myself feel better but it also because I want them to know I genuinely regret.
