The Thinker's Corner || Should I Apologize When I Am Not Sorry?

We live in a world where most people believe they are always in the right even when it is clear that they are wrong. Sometimes when they finally realize their mistake, they find it hard to apologize. This is mostly common among people who are older than us.

I so much dislike confrontations of any kind and always do my best to avoid them but some situations cannot be avoided no matter how much you try.

There are lots of things I can overlook but when it comes to Cheating, I just don't know how to let it go. I dislike it with every fiber of my being. What I mostly dislike is when someone is trying to rip me off. A lot of market sellers are sitting pretty well on this table. I get that it's your goods and you can sell however you please, but telling lies about the amount you bought them even when I know the real market price can be so annoying.

I don't only get angry when people try to cheat me but also when they do it to other people especially those who are fully ignorant about it. As much as I hated confrontations, if it will help someone from being cheated I will gladly speak up even if it means I have to be at odds with the person.

There was an instance where I boarded a tricycle popularly known as " Keke Napep" on my way home and there was a man and a woman seated beside me. From what the woman told the driver, I gathered the woman had no idea where she was going and only told the driver the name of the bus stop.

As we got to where the woman was to alight, I heard her ask the driver the amount she was to pay and the driver told her a certain amount which was way higher than the amount she was supposed to pay.

Before I could say JACK she already paid and crossed to the other side of the road, she was probably in a hurry to get to where she was going.

I asked the driver why he had to cheat her by collecting three times the amount he was supposed to collect and he told me that was his luck. That statement annoyed me and I told the driver what he did to the woman wasn't fair. The man seated beside me decided to butt into the conversation and asked me to mind my business.

I looked at him and couldn't believe my ears. What angered me was the way he talked to me like a child who needed to be scolded and that prompted me to tell him to also mind his business and if he thinks cheating means luck, then he should wait till it happens to him. When he saw that I talked back at him, that seemed to anger him and he raised his voice the more. He told me I was rude to him and should apologize for speaking to him that way.

That angered me but instead of replying to him, I just decided to let him and the driver continue to rant while I wore my earphones and decided to listen to some music and that helped me calm down before I got to my bus stop. I guess when they both realized I was never going to apologize to them, they finally gave up and stopped talking.

As I came down from my bus stop and walked down the distance to my house, I wished I could have devised a way to stop the driver from getting away with what he did but I couldn't help but wonder why people feel the need to cheat others to maximize profit.

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