I think mine was today.
2006-08-09 14:24:40 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Many years ago I went to an estate sale and was fascinated by the collection of odds and ends and inquired of the estate sale manager what happened to the former residents of the home. She told me that there were 2 sisters and one died. I asked what happened to the other sister, and she told me that she was in a room in the house now behind a locked door.
My typical meandering throughout the house of an estate sale that day was then transformed to one of pondering how this woman could bear to remain in the house while strangers went room to room, buying off it's contents. For the collection of items were atypically eccentric and fascinating, indicating the collectors themselves were highly unique and had greatly inquiring minds with a strong aesthetic taste, and I kept wondering what the owners had been like... Thought about the sadness this woman must be feeling as the items were sold, still mourning the loss of her close sister.
So when I left, I wrote down the address of the house and got home and wrote the owner a letter. Several weeks went by and I'd forgotten all about it. Then one day a letter arrived in my mailbox, and it was from this elderly woman who lived in the house of the estate sale.
She told me that reading my letter to her greatly touched her and moved her immensely, as I was quite correct in sensing her sorrow and loss. She complimented me by stating that it gave her great joy to find such a sensitive soul as I was.
She invited me to her new apartment in a Senior Citizen's High Rise. I went and we met and she invited me in. Then she told me about her life, her sister, and we had the most delightful conversation.
The one thing she told me has stayed with me all of my life.
She told me that she'd married, raised children, and then her husband died, and she reached her 60s and was thinking how life was getting shorter and how she'd taken few risks and had few adventures in her life.
She told me she'd always had a dream of going on an African Safari. And she decided to go on one, in her mid-60s. Her family and friends scoffed at her and tried to discourage her. But she went, and told me she had the greatest time of her life.
A few months later I tried to contact her, but learned she had passed on.
The lesson of this story:
Try to become more sensitive to what's going on around you, develop a heightened sense of awareness and don't allow it to be dulled by the trappings of modern life. And dare to take risks, don't give up on your hopes, and sometimes despite what others think, pursue your greatest dreams.
2006-08-09 14:39:26 · answer #1 · answered by Ivy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gosh, thats a hard question!! Over the years you get so many how are u gonna pick just one!? Well theres different kind of compliments. Like theres compliments that your boyfriend give you and theirs compliments your teachers give you, and thats not counting the ones your family gives you!!! Whitch is usally alot. But half the time I think they really dont mean them. OK back 2 the question. Sorry i get distracted easily. Well the nicest compliment ive ever gotten is one my boyfriend gave me in 6th grade. Sorry this is gonna sound reallly stupid but we were at a dance and when i meet him there he say me and said You look beatiful, im so glad i came with you.
2006-08-09 14:35:20 · answer #2 · answered by Luv2dance101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I actually have an instantaneous quote because it replaced into despatched in a letter! "And believe me, i recognize that I likely could get over it, yet as painful as that's, and loving you is the only maximum painful ingredient I actually have ever carried out, i do not favor to allow you bypass. you're worth it, you really are." It counts as a praise acceptable? Oh and an MSN convo with my boyfriend "what's now to not like? you're desirable. sensible. relaxing to be round. you're each thing i have ever needed! Now end being down on your self! i am going to't have my destiny spouse having low vanity!" melted.
2016-11-23 18:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine was also today and it made me really happy. Just the thought that this person replied to my mail is enough of a compliment for me and having encountered this question is much more.. I just hope you know what i mean.. : )
2006-08-09 14:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by lilac 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When a complete stranger told me what a wonderful young man my son was.
My husband and I were out at Cypress Gardens, where my son works. My husband started talking to a lady who was working in one of the concession stands, and she knew my son.
I guess all those years of pounding manners into their heads paid off. lol
2006-08-09 14:36:03 · answer #5 · answered by suequek 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Truthfully?---oh well it's on the web and I don't really have to face anyone...but I had a couple of women in large office I worked in say to me...."god--you're the kind of guy that can make a woman come just by looking at you"...too bad I'm gay....
2006-08-09 14:30:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be something my friend said to me.
"You are smart and funny"
I know it doesn't sound like much, but coming from a close friend who was popular and funny as she was, it was a real compliment
2006-08-09 14:28:22 · answer #7 · answered by Cali Honey 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When my boss told me that she was so happy that she could depend on me for anything anytime. And that she didnt know what she would have dont without me. (I got a raise that day!)
When my boyfriend told me that he loved me and thought that I was the coolest girlfriend a guy could ever have. And that he never wanted to be without me.
2006-08-09 14:40:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Coming from an unlikely source, a friend's boyfriend said to me, "You can sing, you can play instruments, you can dance, you're good at crafts and sewing.....is there anything you can't do?" I responded honestly, and it's funny because now I've learned to do that one thing!
2006-08-09 14:29:57 · answer #9 · answered by Giovanni 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
when my daughter was three yrs old we were at the beach. She was looking at me and blurted. "Mommy, you look just like a Barbie doll" I thought it was a sincere and funny compliment.
2006-08-09 14:29:38 · answer #10 · answered by Dulcinea 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋