A Compliment Paid

Tugging at a straw with her teeth, she consumed the liquid, emerging for a second to smile at how little of the liquidised food she had actually eaten. “What’s that?” I venture to ask only to be met with a cascade of information about the latest ‘diet’ on which she has embarked, her size zero jeans hanging off of her waist as she tells me how she has lost 10 pounds in just one week. 10 pounds in a week. I’m left to question “is that even healthy?” But perhaps my mouth would not have dropped open with such vigour if she had needed to loose any weight at all.

You see, it really grates on me when people can’t see things how they really are. Its like they are blind to any compliments that they receive always proclaiming that they’re ‘ugly’ when somebody else compliments their new haircut or in this case that they are ‘fat’ when they’re clearly not.

A compliment is not something to be thrown around and when someone compliments you it may just be easy to brush it off with a simple shake of the head, or a remark about how they are wrong. But in essence, if somebody compliments you, they really mean what they say. And instead of disagreeing with them maybe you should listen, because they may just be right.

Megan W