Sorryfied!!

It’s not another inspiration from ‘How I met your mother’s Barney to add another self invented word to the dictionary! It is not another title just to catch your attention (Well maybe!). But this is only meant to salute this phenomenon which is driving today’s world. You differ? Check this-

Manmohan Singh said SORRY and apologized to the entire nation for 1984 Sikh riots. That move helped to douse the rapidly growing fire amongst the Sikhs after the ‘Jagdish Tytler’ court rulings. So it worked!

Karan Johar said SORRY to MNS and his film got timely publicity and was allowed to release in Maharashtra. In the same way the audience has still not forgiven Ram Gopal Verma and his movies are going down the drain as he is yet to say sorry for ‘ RGV ke Sholay’.

Thierry Henry said sorry to all football fans for his ‘hand-of-God’ goal and most fans stood up for him saying he is a modern day great (I mean except Irish fans).

So it seems more likely that if you genuinely feel that you need to say ‘sorry’ and you do, it works. But that’s not the case always. For example Andre Agassi saying sorry to his fans recently for using performance enhancing drugs during his playing days and his image taking a major beating! Something is clear that this word is a vital weapon to win a losing battle (if that is what your intention is) but not always!
Let me take myself into account. On an average I keep saying 4-5 sorrys every time I’m in a public transport for all the unwarranted and unintended collisions. In personal life I’m a sort of ‘sorry’ person as I use it extensively. But to tell you the truth even though the sorrys don’t exhaust its effect does! Sometimes your sorrys are really taken for granted even though you might have really meant it. Used to happen with me in school as a kid each time I was involved in flouting norms of discipline!

The feelings associated with this word are primarily of despair, anger or emptiness (before you use the word) and the reactions are not always as portrayed in the sweet Vodafone ads! The reactions vary from complete forgiveness and admiration to the commencement of the ‘forgiveness-cycle’ to complete disrespect towards the person using the word. More often than not it works in the beginning and loses its steam after a few hits. So the order of the day is to use it well and with judiciousness so that the desired effect remains!

Now to use it or not to use it is completely on you! Even though my geography teacher would say, “Sorry is the world’s cheapest word”, I would only say that the feelings associated with the person saying it isn’t necessarily cheap!
So stop thinking friends just say it before it’s too late but remember like Ganguly ‘time it well!’.