SCENARIO #1
ME: God, I’ve done a lot of ugly, stupid things over the years, but I want to turn over a new leaf and make amends. Will you forgive me?
GOD: You are forgiven. Now go and sin no more.
SCENARIO #2
ME: Hello [girl who I was in love with in high school]. Last Wednesday, while drunk, I decided to Google your first name together with the name of the town we grew up in/the city we both lived next to in the vain hope that either combination would turn up something – anything – pertaining to the life you’ve lived since you graduated from high school. As chance would have it, I stumbled upon your Facebook profile and noticed you’re married, a mother, and have a successful business going now. Needless to say, I’m very happy for you and hope nothing but the best for you. Now, I’m going to create my own Facebook account, hoping that eventually, I can work up the courage to contact you directly and see if we can’t let the stupid misunderstandings between us from the past be left in the past. Believe me, I don’t want to get between you and your husband or sabotage your family in anyway; I’m just so very lonely and I want to reconnect with a friendly face from the past. Now, until I can figure out just what to say to you and how to say it, I’m not going to send you any messages or request a friend invite; I’ll leave that to the future. However, I’ve noticed some of our mutual friends from high school are also here on Facebook, so I’ll send them friend invites instead; maybe by getting in contact with them first, I can figure out the best possible way of approaching you later on.
GIRL: I found out you’re on Facebook, you fucking weirdo, and I’ve blocked you. It doesn’t matter that you didn’t even say anything to me – I don’t want you in my life at all; I’m not even going to give you the chance to prove yourself. Just FUCK OFF AND GO AWAY!
tl;dr: God will forgive you at the first opportunity, but man doesn’t; man keeps a grudge regardless of how much time has passed and will treat you like a diseased leper until your dying day.