Promote Healthy Relationships; Learn To Seek Forgiveness When Wrong
The Mt Kenya Times 
By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- What is socially acceptable keep changing from one generation to the other, one locality to the other so do not stick to the values that you were taught or you have been using as it will result to messing up with others who use different standards to judge such situations.
- A teacher is in-charge of the students so he should be the one to direct them. There are times that he could make mistakes by missing lessons or failing to reply to their questions, this makes the relationship between both parties to be sour.
- The students feel that the one to turn to in issues relating to academics has let them down and the teacher feels guilty that he has failed in his duty of guiding his students.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride …………… Sophocles
What is morally good, acceptable or justified is what we usually refer as right. It is more of a subjective matter as much as someone may regard something as right a different person may refer it as wrong. What is much important here is the intention of the doer.
If he meant well then no matter the interpretation of the person on the receiving end, any other observer or judge would matter but not make him feel guilty as he is clear in his conscientious that he meant well.
It is not all the time when our judgement is correct you may come to realise that what you thought is good is actually bad according to the situation that existed so any comment you made or other actions you took hurt the parties you interacted with. In such circumstances it is advisable to apologize as failure to do so will make them to think that you maliciously hurt them, jeopardize your future relations and at times they may plan to take a revenge catching you unaware as you do not have anything against them.
When it comes to committing mistakes they affect anyone regardless of age, social status or relationships either of the party can hurt the other consciously or unconsciously all that is important is to acknowledge the mistake and seek for forgiveness from the respective parties then you are able to go on with life without feeling guilty.
What is socially acceptable keep changing from one generation to the other, one locality to the other so do not stick to the values that you were taught or you have been using as it will result to messing up with others who use different standards to judge such situations.
A teacher is in-charge of the students so he should be the one to direct them. There are times that he could make mistakes by missing lessons or failing to reply to their questions, this makes the relationship between both parties to be sour.
The students feel that the one to turn to in issues relating to academics has let them down and the teacher feels guilty that he has failed in his duty of guiding his students.
To sort out such issues it is advisable that the teacher accept that he has erred and advise the students to raise their requests for academic support again so that he may respond to them appropriately. Both parties will feel satisfied that the issues disturbing them have been ironed out.
In a marriage relationship when one party mistreats the other oftenly owing to physical, psychological strength or economic muscle yet the other party does not have enough strength to fight back and overcome he or she may opt to find someone else who is caring and this could result to divorce. Simple acts like saying sorry when you make a mistake would mend broken relationships.
Human relations are described as social sciences because there is no definite formula on how to handle them. They are negotiated business where you try to strike a balance between parties with different ways of thinking. It is consensus that works.
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