Like, a phrase that captures a life lesson that you’ve learned. Something that condenses the experience down into a phrase that you can use as a reminder, or maybe something you’ve shared with other people to help them.

For me, I’ve learned that you never realize that you’re living in happier times until they’re behind you.

What are some of yours?

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What’s the ethos behind never apologising for being late?

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never admitting you did anything wrong, basically

IMO a lot of leftists suffer from overapologizing, at the very least, more of them do than chuds

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we’re all sorry cops

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Oh, yeah, I agree. I’ve always found the notion of sorry difficult anyway especially when it’s a situation where it’s not your fault. I’m not sorry that I couldn’t control the world.

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I’ll give you the context: so I had to drive around to client sites and do some work but traffic was always bad so I was late often. I felt bad for being late so I would always apologize. Clients would then remark to my boss about the techs being late so she told me to never apologizing for being late and then people won’t remember you being late. I generally find that people would rather you get started immediately than hear an excuse. I do still apologize for being late if I’m more than a little late but I do it later when they aren’t as impatient.

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Interesting. That’s good advice.

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