“I am sorry. I got stuck in the traffic.” This is an excuse that I reach for every time I am late for an event or a reporting assignment. Do I mean that I am sorry? More often than not, I don’t.
I am a procrastinator from India. My clock runs behind the Indian Standard Time, which usually at least half-an-hour later than the time mention on the invite. And, I have to use the excuse only when I am so awfully late that people notice.
Or sample this, I say, “Sorry, but can you pass on my bag from the cabinet above?” Why should I apologise for asking someone sitting on the aisle seat on a passenger aircraft to pass my bag? But I do. Continue reading “Stop Apologising!”
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