I'm sorry that you feel sorry for those who need to apologize.

Why is it that we ALWAYS take things OUT. We always take the downside of things.
"Almost Never" "Almost Always" they SOUND opposite but what do they have in common? Almost Never means, MOSTLY NEVER, almost Always, means MOSTLY always, but we always take into account the NEVER. As if it has a chance to be never.

We live in such a defeatist society now. Many people say "I'm sorry" after everything they do, I catch myself doing it sometimes without thought. We put on our masks when we wake up in the morning, so that nobody can see our tender flesh, and then when we dive into the wonderful world of technology we take off the mask to put a new one on, and we go be defeated online. Everything is "I can't do it" instead of "Let's go do it."

People think they aren't good enough to go do things anymore. We are told that throughout life we will find a person we love, and they will break our heart. That we will get hurt by somebody close to us. That we will get in trouble. That we will have a job we don't like. And although this is true, what do we expect it to be?

That's where television and media comes in. Our emotions react, not only to the people around us, but to the world around us. We see people on Jersey Shore and Real Housewives, who are rich and famous, and get to do anything they wan't, and if we don't have that life we are losers. And then we are told that we will most likely never GET that life, so we refuse to do anything about anything, more in apathy than fear.

In the medieval ages, people went into the woods with a sword, and hunted things that could kill them. In the west they did the same, only on horses, and all throughout time we have had action and adventure, but now nobody goes anywhere. Life has been turned into an M. Night Shyamalan
 film, where nothing happens until the end where we get disappointed after we were promised so much more, and one out of a billion times, it actually works, we get what we wanted, but deep down we know it's not as good as what we could have had.

I saw a kid on youtube who got in a fight in a store, and some people gawked, the man he was fighting had threatened his life for how close they stood in each other in a store, and the store clerk kicked the KID out. Not the man with a gun, the kid who was getting picked on. And it's sad that people kill themselves because they are scared to be defeated again. They have said too many "I'm sorry"'s.

The worst part of it all is, if we AREN'T defeatist, the defeatists gang up against us. They try and make us like them. Optimism is a rare thing, and you can only achieve it if you are willing to accept the failure, not dwell on it. The sooner we let go we can grab onto another stone, and keep climbing, but until then we are at the bottom, getting eaten by the waves of look-alike fish.

So how do we fix it? Can we? Yes we can. We have to give more respect. More compliments. More help. More compassion. We have to let people know that even though they may have failed, we know they tried, and if they try again they can get it. Since when was a plastic train smarter than 90% of the population? "I think I can, I think I can"

As long as we give people compliments, and let them know that life is something to be ENJOYED and something to be SHARED and something that we shouldn't be ashamed of doing, we can go on those adventures, we can stand up to our neighbors, and we will not end up like "Planet of the Apes"