Compliments.
We all get them, probably not as frequent as we want them but eh what can we
do?
Now some
people handle compliments really well, especially in movies (otherwise it would
be called real life). Compliments are always easier to make than to receive (I
believe). If someone were to compliment me on my work or my ability’s I would be
slightly shy on accepting them BUT if someone were to compliment me on my hair
or outfit or any other compliment appearance wise, I would just look at the
ground, go all red and inform them about my pet rock…
Handing out
compliments is easy for me, I am like Santa handing out gifts on Christmas morning,
The compliments
on someone’s furniture are easy to receive because the usual response is: “Thanks,
got them in IKEA” all the credit goes to them, you’re just the one who stuck it
all in the room. Compliments on someone’s outfit are hard to accept because you
want to make sure you gracefully accept the compliment. For example: “You have such beautiful eyes” this is the
moment were you DO NOT under any circumstances want to mention your pet rock
(might be a little sad) but you want to say something like: “aww thanks, that
is so sweet”. If you go “yeeeh duhh” just a waste of you being nice. That person
has probably received too many compliments and just doesn’t know what to do
with them.
Where you
can be a little cocky (I think) is shoes. Why? Because you were the genius who
knew they were awesome and bought them. “loving your shoes” my response will
be: “Aahhh yes I know, Vanz did a great job one this pair” this way still all
the credit goes to Vans and you take little for buying them.
Other compliments
that I find hard to receive would be compliments like: you are so good at maths
(not me) or you are so funny, your French sounds so native!! Whenever these
come out its hard for the person to remain cool and not fail at whatever they
were just complimented about.
I have been
thinking about a proper way to solve these issues and I think that people
should wear signs. One saying: I handle compliments really well. And another t
shirt (to save the receiving end and the complimenting end a lot of embarrassing
moments) I do not handle compliments well, please send them by email so that I
can think of a proper/graceful way to accept your kindness!!
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