The Necessary Ingredient

No, I am not talking about baking or cooking on this site! (Might do so on another site - clue see the list of other sites found here)

Rather, I was reflecting on an incident which happened recently.

Take two people with different views on how a simple project can be done.

Make that two strong people with different views.

To be more accurate, it was involving two strong and vocal people.

That, dear reader, is a recipe for disaster.

A very visible, loud and explosive one.

How then, to repair the damage?

What can bring about a restoration?

Is there a chance for reconciliation?

Yes, the answer is Yes.

The necessary ingredient then, to salvage and amend things is to apologise. Someone once said you dont have to be wrong to apologise. I agree.

And so it happened. An apology was extended. It was sort of accepted. And then things carried on.

What sort of person would apologise even though not in the wrong?

Someone who seeks peace. Someone who is secure. Someone who is confident. That would be a D determined to do what is right, being able to set aside personal agenda and feelings for the sake of the wellbeing of the situation.

A C would do it too, after some thought. He/she would calculate and then decide that this, being the right course of action, is the apt thing to do. Of course, after thinking, the opposite could be the conclusion. That being the case, then the C will not be the one to do this.

An S would certainly do it, but with fear and trepidation. S dislike confrontations intensely and would probably not have got into this situation in the first case!

An I could have sparked it, and prolonged it. But an I would equally be quick to get over it. Apologies could be spontaneous, but they can come across somewhat false....