Unapologetic

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After the Sex tape of a University student in Nigeria surfaced, she suffered so much backlash and was criticised by everyone. Her school terminated her admission and everyone said she got what she deserved.

She dropped another Video yesterday apologising and she said the leaked Sex video was made a long time ago. She said she isn't what that video portrays again. Those who watched the leaked sex tape attest to it that she looked younger in the video. She was young and adventurous, but she's no longer that way.

Checking the reply under the video where she was asking for forgiveness, I was left with mixed feelings. Some sections pitied her and asked her to take care of herself since she complained that her mental health has been affected a lot. We, humans, are meant to make mistakes and learn from them. As my friend Giddyboy said in his article some days back - " Life comes with no manual" we learn from our mistakes and that of others.

Some other groups believe she doesn't deserve any sympathy or forgiveness. They said she should have thought of the future repercussion of her actions before taking the step. Even if she's no longer doing such, some mistakes cannot be forgiven, it's better not to do it at all.

There's no way to please humans, offer an apology they will say it isn’t sincere enough, don't offer an apology they will chastise you. There's no way you can satisfy everyone, especially when they are hell-bent on crucifying you.

The different opinions got me thinking and asking myself questions-

Is there an unforgivable sin?

Does everyone deserve a second chance?

Do we owe anyone an apology for our actions?

Is there an unforgivable sin?

This is a question I don't know how to answer or let me say I don't have an answer to. If there’s one thing I've learned in the last few years, is that we only say we can't forgive someone when it isn’t directly affecting us. Let me give an example, someone once implicated me in the exam hall and I made a promise to myself not to forgive him. What he did was outrageously stupid and when I explain it to people they all agree that what he did is unforgivable.

Some months later, my friend did something similar to someone. This time around I pleaded on his behalf, this was the same thing I promised not to forgive someone for. I never looked at the other person's perspective.

Does everyone deserve a second chance?

Since I'm indecisive on the former, I won’t be able to say for certain if any sin is unforgivable or not.

But if I were to pick one on the spot, I'll say " Everyone deserves a second chance". In our youthfulness, we tend to make mistakes and do things we might regret later, but we shouldn’t let such things define us. We deserve a second chance at love, we deserve a second chance in everything but not everyone is lucky to be forgiven or given a second chance.

Do we owe everyone an apology...?

It's common to see youth add to their bio "Unapologetic". I used to detest this but seeing the way people reacted to the lady’s apology, I can't blame these youths. Even when you tender an apology, people still crucify you and still trash your apology, why bother at all?

Those you owe an apology are those who are directly affected by your actions and your loved ones who trust and believe in you. Those you dissapointed with the actions you take but apologising to the public or a social media apology to me is a waste of time because there are people out there not ready to accept any form of apology from you.

Conclusion

As written above, learn to forgive others so the same can be done to you, also, learn to apologise to the right people when wrong. Social media is filled with hypocrites, they don't deserve any apology from you except if your actions directly affect them.

Thanks for Reading! 🤗💚🤗

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I would like to ask why are people making fuss about the matter the same people are doing the same thing in secret, the only difference is that hers was leaked out.

Even some criticizing her might be doing things worse than she has done

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2 years ago

The question you asked, if there's unforgivable sin? I also don't know, maybe there is especially when it involves killing.

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2 years ago

Youth are getting too liberated these days to the point of filming themselves while doing such things. I can't blame them since they are out of proper guidance. The most important thing there is she changed herself and apologized. I believe that she can be forgiven. Even a murderer can be forgiven when they serve their sentence, be remorseful, and apologized. Her sin isn't that great to be not forgiven. Society is just full of hypocrites and judgemental people, that's why.

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2 years ago

This is why guidance of educated adults is really important to curious, adventurous youth. If none, then these young people do things that their adult selves will surely regret, and sadly, there's no turning back. What goes into the internet stays there forever, and will haunt her for the rest of her life. But it depends on her whether to stay strong to overcome it and accept her mistakes as how it hones her to become a better person.

I remember Kin Kardashian in the story, not gonna lie.

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2 years ago

Exactly! If schools can integrate this in their curriculum it will help. We youths keep on making this mistake, not learning from the mistake of others

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2 years ago

Forgiveness is not easy most times especially when it's the unapologetic people that are involved, but it's usually the best way to go. Forgive, learn lessons and be more careful

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2 years ago

We must learn from our mistakes and not make them again. I think everyone deserves a second chance as long as they don't make a mistake again.

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2 years ago

The biggest thing I have found about Nigerians is that we are hypocrites. Some of us do things worse than what she has done everyday but we open our mouth and judge others.

I guess it is they say “na who dem catch be thief”

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2 years ago

We human can kill someone by our criticism. If someone had made mistake and is begging for forgiveness we should give a chance. But we instead of forgiveness started character assassination till she/he committed sucide. It is really bad evil in many progressive societies. We should condemn and discouraged these sorts of actions in our country.

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2 years ago

Check and you'd find those people chastising her even after she apologised are people who fornicate. Just because they are not recording it and the internet doesn't know... People change.

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2 years ago

Exactly! Na who police catch be thief.

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We owe People apology in some actions we take, just as you said... those that are directly affected by the actions.

Like me now, now matter how stubborn or strong I tend to prove and commit a "good crime", it will touch down to my parents, not just my parents, to the church, to my community as whole.

When super Eagles lost the ticket to #Qatar2022, it touched the 90% of Nigerians and most of the players took it to heart to apologise. That's how the life is

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2 years ago

I love this article, just as Jesus said, he who is without sin, come cast the first stone, we are humans and we are by nature desperately wicked, so I feel we should be ready to forgive anyone, but help them see that they can be different just as many have lived a better life.

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2 years ago

It doesn't really matter what you do people will still complain so just do yourself

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2 years ago

You'll be surprised at the caliber of things those people that criticize her are doing. People are quick to see other people's faults but are blind to theirs. In this life, just do your own thing, make your mistakes, suffer the consequences and move on. We learn everyday or not🤷‍♀️

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2 years ago

Sometimes I am scared of making the mistake of condemning someone for an act.

The truth is that no one is perfect and the fact that someone was caught doesn't mean that we are saints, God is just still protecting our secrets. Many of us have done worse in the past, pleasing people is impossible.

She should forget about how people feel or what they think and move on.

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2 years ago

I do believe you owe the public an apology, but yours is to give it, is up to those who will accept it to, and for those who will not, not to, but what matters is that you've done your part.

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2 years ago

If your action/what you did affected them. Posting an apology on social media is of no use. Sincerely it's useless.

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2 years ago

Whether it would be accepted or not, ours is to apologise. It would be on record but we should mind our actions too.

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2 years ago

It's sad how the past mistakea stained to her even until now. Guess no matter how much you wanted to change, if people will bring our your mistakes because, you will still be judged.

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2 years ago

Our adventures most times comes back at us. The said undergraduate has had her share of a carefree life and that shouldn't be a yardstick to judge her. Everyone has a weakness. There is no sin that is unforgivable. We should release people from the trauma with tie to so as to allow for continuum. Like Jesus said:

He that is without sin, let him cast the first stone.

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2 years ago

We can forgive but it's not an easy process. Some we can do so easily but not all. Yes, we all deserve second chances. We all commit mistakes. Who are we to judge then? What we can do is be more accepting and move on. Learn as much as we can from those experiences.

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For me, I believe that she owns her family apology and few people that are close to her, the internet never forgives, the video is already everywhere and people won’t delete it from their phone or blogs, it might take time for her to heal, but she has to try and heal and stop apologizing for the video going viral, no one is above mistake, but having a sex tape is 50/50, that’s what she would have known from the start.

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2 years ago

Feel sorry for that person who's past have worsen her today. It's write that it's was unethical but if she confess that it's her past and she has been changed second chance should be given to her

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At times, apologizing is good when it's done at the right time

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