Have you ever done this?
Have you ever said something (with all the best intentions) and had it either come out completely wrong or have it mis-interpreted by the other person? Then, to make matters worse, you try to explain yourself, only to compound the original error? Then, to really bollix things up, you make a totally inappropriate comment, which under other circumstances, would have been ignored or forgiven? Has this ever happened to you?
It happened to me recently, and I’ve been racking my brain, trying to figure out a way to make things right - to put them back, as it were, the way it was. That’s impossible, I know, but I can’t help fixating on the idea. I keep repeating to myself, "If only; if only." If only it were that easy. But what is said cannot be unsaid, and I can only explain myself and my thinking to a certain point. If, after that, the misunderstanding persists, then perhaps the problem lies not with me, but with the other person.
Still, I want to give it one last shot. I’m sorry. Honestly. If I offended, I didn’t mean to do so and I apologize. Here. In public. In front of all these people. I’m sorry.
