I’ve been here a while. Not long enough to be considered an old-timer, or to appear in any other lists of posters, but long enough to have noticed, when this time of year comes around, the “mechila” threads that sprout like mushrooms after a solid summer rain. They are heartfelt, beautifully written pleas for forgiveness.
Here’s my question to the authors of the above:
In The Real World, outside the CR, where you are not an anonymous poster posing as an amphibian, or someone of indeterminate species with a strange name, but a real person with a face, a name & and a recognizable identity–
Do you also manage to verbalize to your family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, such eloquent requests for Mechila for your wrongdoings? Are you able to use the same words contritely, humbly, and ask them to overlook your wrongdoings?