
Excuses
Consider the following and add your thoughts:
"If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers."
- Albert Camus
An adage which I use in my everyday life is:
Reasons sound like excuses, excuses sound like bullshit.
Say it like it is... be honest.... you'll get a lot further much faster that way.
In my home the average effective range of an excuse is ZERO. An excuse is just a cop out. IF you can not own up to why you did this or that you are not going to be very good in the real world. Do not make an excuse take responsiblity and own up to your shortfalls. Only then can you grow and be a better person.