Asking For Forgiveness

It takes courage to ask for forgiveness. It's a moment of vulnerability. The trial, then, is actually faced by the one who has to forgive. Their response if anything, except accepting the apology makes a nasty mark. The apology asked with complete genuinity and not given wholeheartedly is : crumbling on an individual level and socially destructive on a macro level. Socially destructive because it sets a norm of considering the act of saying sorry; foolhardy and nonsensical whereby crushing possi