How meaningful is the word "sorry" to you?

It only means something to me if the person is truly sorry. I agree that it has become way to mechanical. It's so easy to say your sorry, but then more often then not, the same mistakes are commited. To be truly sorry to me means you don't cause that same harm again. I've noticed this with my little boy. He has learned to use sorry to get out of something that he has done wrong and then not ten minutes later he will do the same thing all over again. He thinks by saying sorry, he won't get in trouble for what he has just done. I am trying to teach him to not used the word so lightly, but so far, it's not working:(

That's why several people cannot accept the apologize word "sorry" for other mistakes easily, to see this word is meaningful we can decide which people who apologized whether deserves to have our mercy or not by times ... it's not instantly got the mercy ...
We have the rights to apologizing them or we have the right to revenge, but it is more good for our selves to apologizing them because it will give us advantages from the kindness ...

People which many many many .... times saying sorry not really sorry for you, for this you must resolutely to have the power to punish them, so they will see you and will really sorry for you and afraid doing the same mistakes again ...

If you are emphatic person people will afraid to do same mistakes again and they will really sorry for the mistakes they done to you

Yes, you are true. The word sorry is now used with no feelings. But I am the type of person who is particular about this thing, because when I say sorry I really mean it from the depth of my heart. I have experienced too many heartbreaks in my life, and I know how important it is to say sorry with the fullest sincerity.

I know how to differentiate between a fake sorry and a true sorry. There are many times when a person makes a mistake to me, I mean a serious mistake. If the mistakes are just little, I would never care about it and if the person says she's sorry I would feel a little angry because why should she say sorry for little things like that.

But when she did something really wrong to me, she didn't want to say sorry. And even if she said she's sorry, I know she didn't meant it at all. There were no confession of what she did, she just said she's sorry. Sorry for what?

To me, this type of apology should not be accepted. I hate to say this, but I don't accept insincere apologies. And many a times I let them know that I only accept sincere apologies. ha ha ha...

Hi Rose, I guess I belong to the old school because the word sorry does mean a lot to me. In the fast paced world of today, many words have lost their original meaning and sorry is certainly one of them. I find though that sometimes we do meet someone who really means it and it is very easy to tell because they always make eye contact, and you can read it in their face. When the supermarket clerk says. "have a good day", and there are twenty people waiting in line, I guess we really can't blame her if she is just "mouthing words", it's the way of today's world. The changes that we've seen in the past fifty years would have been incomprehensible back then. Blessings.

I agree... Sorry is constantly being abused by people who are not sincere... i always hate it when someone says sorry to me or others... but just shrug it of after a few seconds... no sincerity in their voice or facial expressiong... just the mechanical sorry... as if they don't really need to say it... but say it just for the sake of...

I say sorry and mean in... but i won't say the work or apologise just for the sake of it... i have my pride... but i can be humble if i know that i am at fault...

hi Roseo..its a very great thoughts of u, n im so agree becoz i was like that too b4. till i realized that those "sorry" words can be more powerfull if we say it in a proper reason, not just like a habit. coz if its just a habit, it will lose its magic n it will just a word, not an apology. ive learnt many times bout it, specially on my relationship with my man. he made me realized, he reminds me that dont be too easily saying those "sorry" word if we cant commit not to do the same mistake again n again.

im so agree with u roseo, nice thoughts n ty 4 sharing it with us..

Hello Rose. When I say sorry, I mean I am sorry for what I have done. Yeah, I have to say that Sorry is a common used word to express our feeling of being sorry to the others for the unhappy thing that we have done to others...Good day.

It is meaningful only when it is aid from heart. some people use it just very casually. it does not matter at that time.also some say it by habit.I can understand when it is said from heart and true sense.

Hi dear
Actions speaks louder than words
If u felt sorry about ur mistakes so it must reflect in ur action, just saying it from mouth is not enough. SORRY, a powerful word. is used as regulat language without its oroginal sipirts.

Take care

I highly praised your point...

I usually say sorry when I commit mistake but not like I say it earnestly... Just say it, like as simple as that...

But when I commit a huge mistake, I usually say 'Forgive me' because saying that word is hard and you really could feel the sincerity of it...

see yah!