Last year I had the honer of presenting myself as a present for an event for people who are unemployed.
My job was to compliment people on their qualities.
One of the questions I asked people (after they stopped laughing over my costume) was.. “I can’t help it but I think you’re so cute, why is that?”
It’s a bit sneaky to ask people to tell me their own qualities, but people really made an effort to come up with one or two. After some thinking and beating around the bush.. they were able to say some nice things.
It’s is rather difficult to consider yourself as a awesome person and certainly if someone asked you so blunt to name the nice things about yourself. Somewhere inside there is some conviction about liking yourself. It’s considered a form of arrogance.. We have learned to be modest. That’s why we seem to need other people to like us, because they are a better judges than we are ourselves.
Let’s help each other out and see the qualities in each other and name them. Give a sincere compliment if you think someone has a special gift.. A compliment helps a lot… Someone will start thinking about what you said.. Gosh.. that was nice, that.. (fill in the name) thinks I am special etcetera.
It’s a small gesture, a compliment, that can make someone’s day. I saw a nice quote that said: “a compliment is a verbal sunbeam”.
I say.. Let the sunshine in… Start throwing compliments at the world!
