Be the First to Say Sorry
Don’t care who started it. Don’t care what it was about. Don’t
care who is right and who is wrong. Don’t care whose game it
was. You are both behaving like spoiled brats and should go to
your room at once. No seriously, we all fall out from time to
time; that’s human nature. From now on, if you want to be a
committed Rules Player, and I can see from the glint in your
eye you do, you will be the first to say sorry. That’s it. End of
Rule. Why? Because that’s what Rules Players do. We are the
first. We take great pride in being first because we are so firm
in our own sense of ourselves that we don’t feel any loss of
pride if we say sorry. We don’t feel threatened or challenged or
weak. We can say sorry and still be strong. We can say sorry
and retain our dignity and respect.
We will say sorry because we are sorry. We are sorry to have
become embroiled in an argument of any sort and have by the
very nature of arguing forgotten at least five Rules.
Yo u s e e , i f i t h a s g o t t e n a s f a r a s a f a l l i n g o u t , n o m a t t e r h o w
trivial or minor, we have already committed a few cardinal
mistakes and thus should be the first to say sorry because we
are in the wrong no matter what the argument is about.
Arguing is what we are saying sorry for. Never mind what it
was about; we are saying sorry first because we are noble,
kind, generous in spirit, dignified, mature, sensible, and good.
I know, I know, gosh we have to be all these things and still
say sorry. Tough call, tall order. Just do it, and see how good it
makes you feel. The view is always fantastic from the moral
high ground.