just considering we should avoid "shame" -- as shame is ignorance (sin)... it is one of the trappings... we should learn and move on... not knot upon past outcomes...
apology should center upon sincere expression of truth, by removing the filter of egoity.
if the vision of truth is not clear, a sincere effort to express our dissappointment that things happenned that way -- and even stating our puzzlement about how the event came about... the key is sincerity ? !
whether on a conscious level or not so conscious level; you have tuned into some of my struggles here. sometimes our vision of truth can be sadening when we find that we have had
such a high view of others and our views have to be altered so much. I would not use the word shame but rather we become duped by circumstances and people. Yet we are looking out the
lenses of our own egoity and projections. sometimes people around us recognize this and tell us what we want to hear and not the truth. we can only hide the truth for so long.
The more spiritual effort given the more shorter the time that is involved in exposing
the truth. The truth can be quite upseting but the truth can set us free.
Jitendra