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“I’M SORRY” NO LONGER FASHIONABLE
By
Jan Bergemann
Published
October 2, 2015
When I grew up people quickly apologized – saying I’m sorry –
even if they didn’t really do anything wrong. It was just the
polite thing to do.
Times have changed -- and it seems that saying “I’m sorry” is no
longer “in” – using today’s language.
Nowadays it seems to be fashionable to blame everybody else for
mistakes made. People just don’t feel like taking responsibility
for their own deeds.
In all reality it’s our society that creates this kind of
environment.
Courts allow criminals who break into families’ homes to sue
these families for injuring themselves while committing a crime.
People are stupid enough to pour hot coffee over their legs, sue
the company that sold them the hot coffee and get lots of money
for their stupidity. But if the coffee would not have been hot
they would have complained as well.
So, why should anybody say “I’m sorry” if our society awards
wrong-doers and even hands them money for their stupidity or
even criminal behavior?
Less and less people say “I’m sorry” – our society seems to have
forgotten to be polite. It’s easier to accuse everybody else for
mistakes instead of saying “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do it!
My mistake!”
I think saying “I’m sorry” should become fashionable again –
being polite should always be fashionable!
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Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice,
Florida
's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group.
CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in
community
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associations. He moved to
Florida
in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the
developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues
for his own purposes. End of retirement!
CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in
Tallahassee
- finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a
member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.
The organization has two websites to inform interested
Florida
homeowners and condo owners:
News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.
Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all
service providers surely have a different interest! We are
trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are
useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking
in
Florida
!
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