If you had to lose one of your senses

If you had to lose one of your senses for a year, which one would it be?

I choose to get rid of smell.

I won't be able to smell the roses that I never smell. I won't be able to smell the smell that lingers in every individual. I won't be able to smell the strong perfume in Hollister.

I wouldn't be able to smell the meat my parents cook so well.

I won't be able to smell people sweating. I won't smell anything in the port-a-potties. I won't smell nasty human odor/gas.

And because I won't be able to smell, I won't be able to taste very well.

But all in all, I think it's pretty reasonable. It would be very hard to survive without sight or hearing. Without touch, everything I have learned from the beginning of my life would be gone. Without taste, I probably just won't enjoy food as much.

I'm sure losing the sense of smell would affect so much more than I listed above. I kind of want to know more.

When is it hard to Apologize?

My dad never apologizes for anything. He doesn't apologize when he's actually wrong. He doesn't even apologize to look good. He just doesn't apologize, period. He can be sorry in his mind and know he is wrong in his heart, but he has never spoke, whispered, stuttered the word "sorry." It's hard for me to apologize to him, if he never apologizes for anything.

When I do something subtly wrong in front of everyone, it's hard to come back and apologize. I could just let it pass, and that would be over with. No need to go back and be sorry for something I meant to keep under control. But I should, and I know it, and it's hard to apologize right then.

And it's very hard to apologize when I don't need to, when I know I didn't do anything wrong. Furthermore, it's harder to apologize when I know I'm right, but I have to apologize anyway, because that's just the way things are.