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“Sorry” ceases to make sense if we believe that things couldn’t have happened any other way. If the world, and our minds, are locked into an inevitable course, one event causing another, then what is there to be sorry for?

But “sorry" is not so much that we are apologizing for what has been done, or that we truly believe we had it in ourselves to do things differently, but more so that we vow to do better next time—that our mind and our heart has been changed by the stark reality of circumstance, and of consequence.