The Power of a Compliment
Have you ever had a bad day? Like a sincerely knock-down-drag-out I am done facing the world kind of day?
Last Friday was a day like that for me. I was reaching the end of the first week of school, and that is hard enough dealing with new classes and new teachers and the like. But, added on top of that, I had all sorts of tension building up over all sorts of stupid little things. Things that I think are a big deal but that anyone else looking in at my situation would see as small and insignificant. Even looking back, now that these problems are on their way toward resolution, I cannot believe how frustrated I was.
But I was frustrated.
I was cold. I was hungry. I was irritated, stressed and sad. And I was all sorts of craycray hormonal. Oh, the joys of being a girl...(LIES)
Anyway, I was going about my day and happened to see two amazing people from my Mission. That brought the total for that week up to 4...which for me, is quite a lot. These two people just made me feel so darn GOOD about being me. They made me feel like I was a lovely, wonderful, amazing person with lovely, amazing, wonderful qualities.
And it got me thinking, why is it that we don't hand out compliments like we hand out free candy at a bank or "take a penny, leave a penny" things at restaurants and such. I am not talking about insincere compliments, because those just feel...I don't know, cheap somehow. I am talking about real, heartfelt compliments that make you feel good about being you. They help you value your friendship, they help you see the beauty in others, and they help you find things to compliment yourself on.
Why can't we take the time to compliment the people we see? Is it really that much easier to find things to criticize them on? We are all children of God. We are all trying our best to make it through this crazy life. And sometimes we have good days and sometimes we don't. Instead of tearing one another down, why CAN'T we build one another up?
Take some time today, tomorrow, next week, whenever and really compliment someone.
That is real success.
Last Friday was a day like that for me. I was reaching the end of the first week of school, and that is hard enough dealing with new classes and new teachers and the like. But, added on top of that, I had all sorts of tension building up over all sorts of stupid little things. Things that I think are a big deal but that anyone else looking in at my situation would see as small and insignificant. Even looking back, now that these problems are on their way toward resolution, I cannot believe how frustrated I was.
But I was frustrated.
I was cold. I was hungry. I was irritated, stressed and sad. And I was all sorts of craycray hormonal. Oh, the joys of being a girl...(LIES)
Anyway, I was going about my day and happened to see two amazing people from my Mission. That brought the total for that week up to 4...which for me, is quite a lot. These two people just made me feel so darn GOOD about being me. They made me feel like I was a lovely, wonderful, amazing person with lovely, amazing, wonderful qualities.
And it got me thinking, why is it that we don't hand out compliments like we hand out free candy at a bank or "take a penny, leave a penny" things at restaurants and such. I am not talking about insincere compliments, because those just feel...I don't know, cheap somehow. I am talking about real, heartfelt compliments that make you feel good about being you. They help you value your friendship, they help you see the beauty in others, and they help you find things to compliment yourself on.
Why can't we take the time to compliment the people we see? Is it really that much easier to find things to criticize them on? We are all children of God. We are all trying our best to make it through this crazy life. And sometimes we have good days and sometimes we don't. Instead of tearing one another down, why CAN'T we build one another up?
Take some time today, tomorrow, next week, whenever and really compliment someone.
That is real success.
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