Compliments...

So, depressing as it is, I realised today that I’ve only gotten one compliment ever from a guy… and you wanna know what that was? Well, I’ll tell you anyway… It was “You’re not ugly, you’re…decent.” Yeah, thanks...

Compliments are nice…. but sometimes they’re overdone. It’s rare, but I actually like complimenting people. I’m EXTREMELY sincere when I do. If I say you’re pretty, I REALLY mean it. I won’t say ‘ummmm I like your shoes’ if I think they’re hideous. I hate when people do that too. Like one time my friend, who shall be unnamed, literally scanned my entire body looking for something to compliment me on…and maybe it was because she wanted a compliment herself and wanted to throw that hint out there…. I don’t know.

An whatdo you compliment people on? My close friends say I’m beautiful, but when they say that I think they mean my personality is— weird as this may sound, I don’t think “wow, I’m beautiful because so-and-so said so!” I just don’t think like that.

But you know when compliments are the best, to me that is?… When I’m crying, and there’s just one person in the room and they say something REAL. They just hug me and say “You’re a GOOD person.” Those are the kind of compliments I like.

Food for thought yo.

~JENI