Can You Take A Compliment?
In her Color Me Fit blog Kery talks about how it feels when someone comes up to you and says “You’re so pretty”.
The sad part is that my first thought was to wonder if he was mocking me.
Now I don’t personally subscribe to anyone commenting on how I look. But once my friend did the exact same thing. While I was in college, a friend of mine talked about how she went up to a boy and complimented him on his looks. He looked back at her insulted as though she had said,”You like like dog shit.”
She never saw him again.
Sometimes we can underestimate ourselves so much that we can’t even take a pat on the back without suspicion. Maybe there are days when we look really good, regardless of our size. I’ll say embrace those days and understand a compliment when you get one.
appearance, body image perception
May 26th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Ha! It’s true!! I used to assume “You look nice today” was interchangable with “You have parsley in your teeth”. It’s taken me YEARS to just learn to smile and say, “Thank you.”
Of course, now that I’m pregnant, I’m allowed to say, “Shut up; I feel like crap.”