What is the best compliment you've ever gotten?

[Anonymous]

A older man walks his dog past my house every day. One day during late spring 2020, deep into quarantine, I was in the driveway doing a craft with my 1, 3, and 5 year olds. I was feeling pretty low on my parenting abilities in general at that point in the pandemic. And he walked past that day and goes “I just want to let you know that I see you out here a lot and you’re a really good mother”. And just waved and kept walking. It made me cry.

[Anonymous]

My dad frequently mistakenly calls be by my aunts name (his younger sister). She’s an awesome person

[Anonymous]

When leaving a job, my department head told me I was indispensable.

After pulling myself out of a major depression and losing 55lb, I saw someone for the first time since losing the weight and she gushed about how tiny I looked. It’s shallow, but it sticks with me.

[Anonymous]

I used to be a high school art teacher. I started teaching very young (23) and was definitely overwhelmed my first year teaching at an inner city high school in a large city. It was rough, but even so, I’ve had a number of notes and compliments from students over the years. The one that stands out the most is from one student who was an absolute terror. He was an angry, angry young man, and I had to send him to the office on more than one occasion for being violent in class. Well, 10+ years later, he found me on FB and sent me a message apologizing for being so awful, and thanking me for always being kind, even when he didn’t deserve it. He told me that my class was what helped him get through the death of his mother, and lead him to his love for art.

So for those of you out there who feel like specials like art and music are a waste of time, all I can say is art saves lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes, some very bad pick up lines here in this thread, including from prisoners.

Get off this thread...you are a downer and I'm sorry you feel so bad about yourself.

[Anonymous]

I nannied throughout grad school and this one family had a multimillion dollar home, 3 different play areas, a pool, every toy imaginable, etc. Dh and I had just bought a house that had 40 year old kitchen and bathrooms, no toys (we didn't have kids yet), but the kids always asked to come over to my house and we would bake cookies from scratch, build forts, make sock puppet shows, go on scavenger hunts. One day when the mom came to pick the kids up, the 5yo said "Mom, I really wish I could live here in Larla's house. It's so magical".

That has stuck with me intensely over the years. I used to be embarrassed for their mom to come in when she picked them up. Now that I have 3 kids, I always remind myself they don't need the most, latest, or greatest- they need my undivided attention when I'm with them and someone to get on the floor and color sock puppets.

[Anonymous]

43 yo man

I had a friend of my wife say that I look like/could be small town guy from a Hallmark Christmas Movie that the lead falls in love with.

I think it was a compliment...

[Anonymous]

When I was a young elementary teacher, I had a painfully shy student. His mom stopped in for a spur of the moment conference and relayed that he was having a great year. She said her son described it as "other years, he felt like he was so thirsty, this year, he felt like he was swimming in a lake of water."

[Anonymous]

A lot of these tidbits are making me choke up. Just a reminder that making the effort to say something positive to someone goes a very long way. Keep them coming!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to be a high school art teacher. I started teaching very young (23) and was definitely overwhelmed my first year teaching at an inner city high school in a large city. It was rough, but even so, I’ve had a number of notes and compliments from students over the years. The one that stands out the most is from one student who was an absolute terror. He was an angry, angry young man, and I had to send him to the office on more than one occasion for being violent in class. Well, 10+ years later, he found me on FB and sent me a message apologizing for being so awful, and thanking me for always being kind, even when he didn’t deserve it. He told me that my class was what helped him get through the death of his mother, and lead him to his love for art.

So for those of you out there who feel like specials like art and music are a waste of time, all I can say is art saves lives.

This is amazing. What a gift!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of these tidbits are making me choke up. Just a reminder that making the effort to say something positive to someone goes a very long way. Keep them coming!

I was thinking the same. It's amazing how we've all held on to someone's words from many years ago and just goes to show that if you think something kind about someone, saying out lout can really make a difference.

[Anonymous]

"I wish I had the guts!"
Re: me letting my hair go grey

[Anonymous]

These sound shallow but I have very low confidence about how I look and dress. One person told me they loved my jeans and asked what they were. I was shocked because wha e no fashion sense. Another told me they loved my hair (I don’t dye it) on a day where I was feeling very bad about how my hair looked.

Multiple of my kids’ friends have told them that I am funny and a couple even said I was pretty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of these tidbits are making me choke up. Just a reminder that making the effort to say something positive to someone goes a very long way. Keep them coming!

I was thinking the same. It's amazing how we've all held on to someone's words from many years ago and just goes to show that if you think something kind about someone, saying out lout can really make a difference.

+1 and as one of the PPs noted, especially the comments from strangers.

[Anonymous]

Big law guy told me I was too pretty to date someone at Venable.