This may sound odd. Everyone likes a compliment. Well, some curmudgeons may not. Compliments are a supposed desirable transaction. After all, one doesn’t get the latest handbag and put on eye shadow to not be complimented.
Here’s another side to compliments. They also allow others to possibly to have power over you.
Categories: Culture, identity, mental health, Psychology
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And sometimes compliments are just creepy.
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It’s True The Giver Always Has the
Most Power of Joy When The
Receiving is the
Essence
of the Giving…
Meh, What Being on the
Bottom of The Totem Pole
Meek Inheriting the Earth Serving
Out Rental Shoes At A Bowling Center
For Close to 2 Decades Yes At the Bottom
of the Ladder Teaches Best After
Being Near the Top of the
Class At School
Through 3 Degrees
The Rest of my Life Before
The View From the Bottom is Always Up…
Some Days Folks Understand How Beautiful
This View Truly Is Free Most Days They Don’t
Yet What Do Ya Expect in a Land of Owning Happiness…
i’ll Always Remember The Lesson Coming Back to Haunt
me Suddenly Getting Vaulted in 3 Promotions to the Top of
The Class of the Military Installation Face to Face with A
First Woman Captain of the Station Seeking Admiral
No Matter Who
Falls In Her Wake…
While everyone was melting
A Man Called Walker Intellectually
Challenged as Janitor Was the only
One Retaining A Smile in an Entire
Administration Building Run by A
Similar Trump Tyrant And then
i Realized How i was Correct
Before the
Meek Do
Inherit the EartH
of Joy the Other World
Is Basically Self-Inflicted Hell…
The XO Said, i just Don’t Understand
Why That Guy Is Always Jovial With
A Smile Well Wishing All He Meets
i Just Don’t Understand Why that
Guy is Always Jovial With A
Smile Well Wishing All He
Meets i’m Quite Sure
That XO Still
Doesn’t
Meet Everyone
On the Street
With A Jovial Smile
Perhaps He’ll never
Get to Heaven ‘Walker’ Never Left
Still Working There Now With A Smile After 30 Years…
Here’s a Little Secret Happiness Has Nothing to Do With Standard IQ…
i Visit A Place Everyday Where Informal Polls Assess IQ’s of 140 to 160…
i’ve Never Seen a More Frowny Dull Place So i Visit Every Day As ‘Walker’…
Same Reason i Go To Church Every Sunday As ‘Walker’ too Many Places indeed..
Dancing
Singing
My Own ‘Walker Style’..
Generally Speaking Folks
Ignored ‘Walker’ Like He Wasn’t
Even in the Building We Always Shared a ‘Secret Smile’….
Such An Angel
That Old
African
American Man
Several Years Younger than me…
It’s Funny What We See As Disability in Life
Versus ‘Normal’ Aha Funny As in HAha Not Really Humorous…
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