Ever do something with the best of intentions and high hopes, knowing full well it might have some negative results, but braving it anyway in optimistic anticipation that the positive outcome would make the negative negligable?
I have.
I have, just recently… reached out to a large number of people at once… and while the number of people who did not mind my gesture – or were pleased or even delighted by it – is greater I believe than the number of people who did not appreciate it – or were dismayed or even revolted by it, I still believe that I made a grave error.
Sometimes just one person who takes justifiable offense outweighs dozens who don’t.
What’s more, I find myself in the predicament of not being able to apologize to those whom I have offended. To do so would be something like a trespasser you have shouted off your property then hopping the fence into your yard and knocking on the back door to say he’s sorry. So – it being completely inadvisable to apologize, I’m left… shamed.
Nothing for it but to take a deep breath, soldier on, and do one’s best not to repeat the mistake in future.
Oops.
#jusjojan
It was only the one 🙂 I did wonder why people were clicking “reply to all” rather than just “reply”, so not all on you. Fortunately Gmail gathered everything in one conversation so it was no biggie for me.
I’m the same – 99 positives and 1 negative and I only see the negative.
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I should so have used BCC in the first place – if there was a first place at all… I’ve just never used BCC before, so I did not recognize it as an option!
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From my perspective your intention was to spread some positive energy to a group of people you interact with online and make them feel good by letting them know they made you feel good and I personally don’t see anything wrong with that. If there’s one thing this world needs more of it’s positive energy. I understand you feeling shamed and I’d like to believe that wasn’t the sender’s intent. but because it wasn’t sent to you privately but was shared with everyone on your list, and considering that was done after the sender made a specific plea to anyone replying to your email in the future to NOT ‘reply all’, I have to wonder. Anyway, I thought what you did was nice and I still think it was nice.
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Thank you Michael – your perspective means the world to me right now.
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You can’t please everyone and I’ve learned that lesson too many times to count…you’re not alone. We all make mistakes – and I’ve also learned that even if it wasn’t really a mistake it’s better to just let it go and move on.
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Really appreciate your empathy, Bel, thx.
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