The Power Is Yours!
I think that the world would be such a better place if people took time to genuinely compliment each other.
I've been trying to act more on my impulses to give people compliments. My main outlet has been at work. Sales have definitely started going up and people are starting to buy costumes for Halloween this year. Most people look great in costumes but if I feel that a costume really does something for someone then I'll absolutely walk up and tell them. Sometimes I get a sincere thanks, other times I get looked at funny.
The biggest and best compliment I was ever given was not a compliment directed to me alone but was actually directed towards me and Rob on our first date. Our first date started at 7:30 in the evening when he picked me up from my friend, Matt's, apartment. I had been planning to visit Matt for a couple weeks since I was staying at my mom's house that summer and had also been talking to Rob online for about a week. I really liked him a lot from what I knew about him online so it seemed like a good idea to go on a date with him that weekend.
Our date lasted until 4 AM.
But around 2, after Rob and I had dinner at a local hibachi restaurant, smoked a hookah, and walked around Lake Ella; I bought a deck of cards at CVS and we took a trip to a 24/7 vegan cafe called All Saints so I could teach him how to play poker. We had a really great time and we had played a few hands when an older gentleman came to us and told us that in a world where there was so much war and poverty that it was nice to see a couple like us together having such a good time with each other. He took our picture for us and then he left.
While I knew that I really enjoyed my time with Rob and I thought he was great from the get go, that was just the icing on the cake for me and that was when I really knew that I wanted to be with him.
Rob and I still talk about our first date and we still talk about that guy. We both wish that we could find him and tell him how much we appreciated what he said to us and how much it impacted our lives.
Compliments are a powerful thing.
I've been trying to act more on my impulses to give people compliments. My main outlet has been at work. Sales have definitely started going up and people are starting to buy costumes for Halloween this year. Most people look great in costumes but if I feel that a costume really does something for someone then I'll absolutely walk up and tell them. Sometimes I get a sincere thanks, other times I get looked at funny.
The biggest and best compliment I was ever given was not a compliment directed to me alone but was actually directed towards me and Rob on our first date. Our first date started at 7:30 in the evening when he picked me up from my friend, Matt's, apartment. I had been planning to visit Matt for a couple weeks since I was staying at my mom's house that summer and had also been talking to Rob online for about a week. I really liked him a lot from what I knew about him online so it seemed like a good idea to go on a date with him that weekend.
Our date lasted until 4 AM.
But around 2, after Rob and I had dinner at a local hibachi restaurant, smoked a hookah, and walked around Lake Ella; I bought a deck of cards at CVS and we took a trip to a 24/7 vegan cafe called All Saints so I could teach him how to play poker. We had a really great time and we had played a few hands when an older gentleman came to us and told us that in a world where there was so much war and poverty that it was nice to see a couple like us together having such a good time with each other. He took our picture for us and then he left.
While I knew that I really enjoyed my time with Rob and I thought he was great from the get go, that was just the icing on the cake for me and that was when I really knew that I wanted to be with him.
Rob and I still talk about our first date and we still talk about that guy. We both wish that we could find him and tell him how much we appreciated what he said to us and how much it impacted our lives.
Compliments are a powerful thing.