Compliments
I like memes a lot but I rarely post memes that require responses from my friends list.
I definitely won't be posting the 'compliment meme' that is going around at the moment.
I'm honestly afraid that no one would have anything nice to say.
In the sixth grade we did a project where we had to write one compliment for every kid in the class and give it to them on this little flower petal shaped bit of paper. Then we put them on a ring and it made them into a flower. I worked my ass off writing a nice compliment for every kid in the class, even the ones who teased me regularly and made my life a living hell. I was honest and sincere on every compliment I wrote, even when it was a struggle.
The compliments I received in returned were a disappointment, to say the least. Approximately 30 compliments, most of which said things along the lines of, "You are a really good student" and "You are good at math". Many of them said simply, "You are nice" and I knew that my peers just didn't have anything else to say about me. One particularly bitchy girl complimented me on my ability to get all my makeup work done after I missed so much school.
My senior year of high school I did nearly the exact same project in my advanced psychology class. For two weeks we wrote down our negative thoughts and put them in a paper bag. At the end of the two weeks we threw them all in the garbage and refilled the bag with compliments written by our peers. Once again, I struggled to write something nice about everyone in the class, even a boy named Jake who had once taken a picture of me and photoshopped it to make me into a Godzilla monster smashing a city (seriously, the jerk did this, and he wasn't just being funny. It was done with cruel intent.)
My senior year compliments were nearly as disappointing as the ones from elementary school. They had a slightly better vocabulary, but it was still clear that no one in my class really knew who I was or had anything of substance to say about me.
I think I still have all the compliments from elementary school... I might even have the ones from high school. Now I want to look for them.
Comments disabled on this post because I am honestly not fishing for compliments.
I definitely won't be posting the 'compliment meme' that is going around at the moment.
I'm honestly afraid that no one would have anything nice to say.
In the sixth grade we did a project where we had to write one compliment for every kid in the class and give it to them on this little flower petal shaped bit of paper. Then we put them on a ring and it made them into a flower. I worked my ass off writing a nice compliment for every kid in the class, even the ones who teased me regularly and made my life a living hell. I was honest and sincere on every compliment I wrote, even when it was a struggle.
The compliments I received in returned were a disappointment, to say the least. Approximately 30 compliments, most of which said things along the lines of, "You are a really good student" and "You are good at math". Many of them said simply, "You are nice" and I knew that my peers just didn't have anything else to say about me. One particularly bitchy girl complimented me on my ability to get all my makeup work done after I missed so much school.
My senior year of high school I did nearly the exact same project in my advanced psychology class. For two weeks we wrote down our negative thoughts and put them in a paper bag. At the end of the two weeks we threw them all in the garbage and refilled the bag with compliments written by our peers. Once again, I struggled to write something nice about everyone in the class, even a boy named Jake who had once taken a picture of me and photoshopped it to make me into a Godzilla monster smashing a city (seriously, the jerk did this, and he wasn't just being funny. It was done with cruel intent.)
My senior year compliments were nearly as disappointing as the ones from elementary school. They had a slightly better vocabulary, but it was still clear that no one in my class really knew who I was or had anything of substance to say about me.
I think I still have all the compliments from elementary school... I might even have the ones from high school. Now I want to look for them.
Comments disabled on this post because I am honestly not fishing for compliments.