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Well, it’s been a week without blogging and I can feel my soul is aching for it - just need to get rid of my anger towards cowardly people.  Stii was in Botswana for a couple of days and being alone with the kids can get quite hectic.  At night time (when the kids are in bed), Stii and I chat on Adium and what feels like 10 minutes, quickly turns into 2 or 3 hours.  By that time I’m so tired that I just don’t get to blogging.

But, this is a topic that’s been on my mind for quite some time now.  I am  the kind of person that would admit the moment that I’m wrong and do the necessary apologies and try to correct where I’ve wronged anybody. But if I’m right, sorry, no apologies from me.  I will stand my ground until such time that the other party can proof me wrong.  On issues that have no right or wrong - I’m always open and willing to listen to other people, we can always learn and gain knowledge in the process.

Then you get people that, knowing that they’ve wronged you, just WOULD NOT apologize! They will not admit that they have made a mistake (or rather put it - that they are not capable of making mistakes).  How difficult can it be to admit that you are human?

I’ve had a recent conversation (if you want to call it that) with somebody wherein the person, realizing that he’s wrong, totally went off the topic and started getting very personal.  Up to know I still have not received the words “I’m sorry, you were right” out of his mouth.  What is wrong with our society if a person cannot even admit when he’s wrong? He will rather start a huge fight and get very personal about everything and anything.  Is it pride? Is it stupidity? Might it be the fact that he still think he’s right? (even after proving to him that he’s wrong).  Out of respect for myself and my loved ones, I decided not to get involved in any more catfights.  To be very honest, knowing in my hart that I’ve won this battle by being the better person not to be drawn into somebody else’s battle with his own devils, makes me feel very good.

Oh, and one last thing, why do people want to prescribe to you/me how to write your blog or in what language you write your blog? I’m sorry if my is and are’s and has and have’s are not always grammatically correct, but some of us do have friends in foreign countries who CANNOT read/understand Afrikaans.  I would rather have them reading my grammatically incorrect blog instead of not reading it at all.

To all the English speaking people, that do not get irritated by my grammatically incorrect blog - thank you very much! I appreciate it.