Please stop apologising.

You may have seen this image floating around in recent months (or years) that encourages you to say thank you rather than sorry.

And I really want to emphasize and remind you of the definition of sorry:

sorry adjective feeling regret or penitence.

Now don't get me wrong, there is a time and place to accept fault and say sorry for a mistake that has been made. We are all humans and mistakes, unfortunately, happen.

But please stop apologising for utilising the finite time you have each day to do EVERYTHING that we do and prioritising certain tasks and people over others.

So when it took you more than a day or even week to respond to an email. Don't say sorry.

When you couldn't make the social zoom call with mates on the weekend because you are wrecked and cannot bare to look at a computer screen. Don't say sorry.

And when others contributed more to a team project than you. Don't say sorry.

"You did your best with what you knew and you worked with what you had with the time you were given." - Elizabeth Gilbert.

Please be a little kinder to yourself and each other and starting saying thank you instead of sorry because at the end of the day, feeling guilty for letting someone else down will more than likely hurt you more than them.

We all are doing our best whilst running on empty tanks in a world full of uncertainty and the only way to get through it is together.