Unfortunately, I was not as enlightened as you Kristi. Yesterday, I found myself driven by our class discussion of apologies, but it has since yielded no fruit for a final paper. It is however interesting that we crave attention to our wounds by means of receiving an apology. In this sense, we do not seek the apology at all, rather the simple words "I'm sorry" as meaning "I recognize that I hurt you. Are you OK?"
I also think it strange that as Americans we have adapted our language to become lazy. Words generally have several meanings, and without context clues or extensive knowledge of our culture, our American words can trip you up. We have condensed our language to say what we mean in the least possible syllables, leaving much to interpretation. When did this happen? Why did this happen? And are we only going to continue in this word cutting, or will one day will we wake up to find that we no longer understand what the other is saying?
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