Share with me your thoughts and opinions about a person in your life. Doesn't matter how tenuous your connection to them might be, so long as you think they're worth posting about.

My current landlady is pretty friendly. I'm surprised how she can put up with 2 year old tantrums all day, considering how annoying I find them to be. Lately she's been stressed about a job interview she has coming up. Apparently the system in this country is to be interviewed in advance by a board, which compiles a list of candidates to whom positions are awarded in order of merit. This seems inefficient to me, surely it would be more useful to tailor each interview to a particular job? But I suppose that would also mean each candidate needing to attend more interviews, which wouldn't be much fun.

Just glad to know one of my friends, nice to know someone who you can get along with and you can chat with all night.

I recently messaged someone on Facebook I know from school. We're still "friends" there but we were never really close. I just knew his name and how he looked like and vice versa. He's always been a wierdo though and I remember how he was bullied and that I also had my part in this. I wasn't very nice to him.
Out of the blue, I contacted him and we had some small talk.

How are you doing, what carreer did you pursue after graduation etc.

In the midst of this awkward small talk I apologised for being mean to him years ago. His response

Oh I don't even remember that, I suffered from my parents more than anyone in school

Turns out he's been suffering from depression ever since and still is. Poor guy. I feel bad for being mean to him.

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I feel you man. I've struggled with feelings of guilt for a long time. Sometimes I wonder if wanting to apologise is just a selfish desire on my own part, so that I can be forgiven and feel better.
Realistically, having cut off contact with some of the people I feel guilty towards, I find it hard to believe that contacting them would be anything but selfish. Most of them have moved on with their lives, and it would probably only hurt them if I brought up the past.
I've tried to put the past behind me and focus on becoming a better person, but in difficult times there's always these feelings of guilt and doubt.

>>4

Sometimes I wonder if wanting to apologise is just a selfish desire on my own part, so that I can be forgiven and feel better.

I probably can't deny that I apologised just for his sake but I'm honest:
I wasn't at the top of the food chain in shool and if my bullies messaged me I'd be moved. I'd rather have a late apology than none.

But you have a point. It can be very inappropriate depending on the individual. Though to me it seems like you could use that talk for your own well being. So maybe you should just send a mail/message and just get it off your chest.

>>5
Thanks. I didn't mean to imply anything about your own apology, by the way. I was mostly just thinking about my own situation. Something that I could ideally do less, apparently.