Posted by the author on August 23rd, 2011
Throughout life you have faced a lot of good times and a lot of bad times. As you reflect back on your life after raising your family, making business decisions whether good or bad knowing in your heart you tried to be an honest citizen you will have many proud moments.
On the other hand, you will also be reminded of the decisions you made that you are not very proud of making. During your lifetime you may have offended someone and caused your relationship with them to dissolve.
By far the hardest thing to ever admit is that you were wrong. Looking back over the years you will be able to remember times you mistreated someone and maybe you were wrong in your decision which in turn created dishonesty or an unethical result.
During the time you are dealing with the bad decision it is easy to continue to go with it and in time forget that it even was an issue. Your mind has a way of being able to forget it even happened. Now you are at the senior stage of your life you have to face reality.
Honesty is always the best policy. Reminiscing on your life decisions can be fun remembering the good times and the successful times will bring back good memories.
You will not be able to enjoy the good memories without remembering the incidents in your life when your wrongful actions or your hurtful words caused harm to the people you were associated with over the years.
As a senior adult it is time to come to terms with your past decisions and make the decision to mend your past mistakes.
Now is the time in your life you will want to put aside your differences and be at peace in your mind to enjoy the remaining senior years without any regrets even if you are forced to live in low income senior housing to get by.
It is very important you get any unresolved matters taken care of before it is too late. You will want the assurance you did the best you could possibly do to correct your past mistakes.
Usually it only takes a few words to mend a broken relationship you may have caused. The proper words to say are simply I am sorry, but when spoken with sincerity in your heart they are the hardest words to ever come out of your mouth.
It would be very sad if when looking back on your life you discover the broken relationships were caused by your foolish pride, your inconsiderate activity or your greed.
Depending on who is involved with the fragmented relationship it may be someone you love dearly and do not want to allow your relationship to continue to be broken in your retirement years.
The question is heavy on your mind how do you proceed with telling someone I am sorry whom you have not spoken to for many years. The easiest way to mend bridges is to have help you do not want to try to accomplish this task alone.
There many have been a disagreement between family members over finances and you and your brother had heated disagreements and caused the severance of your relationship.
Looking back over the years the disagreement may seem very minor to you now. Unfortunately the severed relationship is still very painful every time it comes to your mind. Even if you were the one at fault in causing the flare up between you and your brother your pride gets in the way of making the phone call and telling him you are sorry, forget the past and be friends again.
You may want to contact another sibling to intervene for you to break the silence between you and your brother. You will want to call your sister or brother who has a good relationship with both you and your brother and allow them to be your mediator to reconcile you with each other.
Be assured your sibling will be thrilled to know you have made the first step in wanting to reconcile with each other and will be honored to know they played a major role in making it happen. This is just one way of reaching out to mend your differences and to be able to say I am sorry to the person you have hurt in the past but still love very much.
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