What was the best compliment you’ve received?
Hey..
I hope all of you are doing well…!
It’s 7:58 in the morning as I’m writing this…
After spending most of yesterday’s working hours getting the metal pipes changed that bring us water from main water lines which corroded over the years;
I wanted to completely shut down when I came back at our premises at 6 but I got some orders which needed preparations and when that happens we have to stay on our feet and note each and every detail…!
So I reached home around 8 and it was showing on my face because everyone around me asked if I was okay…?!
Did something happen or did someone say anything to me…?
On saying no and sitting next to me and enquiring about my day they assumed it was tiredness and let me rest after telling me to have dinner…!
My mom last left the room and she kissed me on my head and said,
“Where would we go without you beta…?”
And my sister walked in too as she was saying that, without knocking of course,
And,
She sat on the corner of my bed and said,
“May G0d give you everything that you have on your mind and in-turn you give me money…!”
That empty room filled with laughter,
I was reminded the real people who I was grateful for and who I did everything for…!
And in that happy moment I felt a silence a voice missing of the person who will forever stay within our hearts,
Everyone’s hearts who was within that room—
Hope his life ahead is an easier one…!
After saying that in my mind I got ready to have dinner with them…!
(Khair…)
Coming back to the prompt…!
Best compliment I’ve received
Do men ever receive compliments…?
Or,
I have been someone who is so cut off from the world that I don’t remember when it comes to being complimented or remembering a compliment…!
I do remember being told that—
I don’t have the same thinking as the kids of this generation;
They’re abrupt and cut off people in the middle,
And I came to our rescue by saying that,
The new generation knows when to stop and by stopping I mean themselves and others too when they know the conversation will take a wrong turn…!
Another one,
I was told this by an older person when I was travelling by train to my extended family—
I think in a way that’s better than most of the adults that they’ve met…!
And I told them it’s my company and the type of people I surround myself with as a fully functioning adult and my thought process—
But before I could complete the sentence they said—
It gives them a clear picture of how my parents brought me up and taught me well…!
The obsession of older generation to bring the parents of our younger generation into conversation is something that needs to be studied…
But from that they can easily criticise both them and us in a single sweep and some people don’t tolerate that….
“Thank you for bringing my life which I was so scared of infront of the whole world…”
This compliment I received from a girl who I didn’t even meet IRL,
She has a very tragic life story and when she told me everything that went on with her life;
I didn’t tell her that it would be okay or to forget her past,
But,
What I did was asked her to tell me everything about her and what went on and her permission to bring her life infront of others…
I wrote it to the best of my abilities and sent it to the world to view and read and comment and tell how grateful she was to survive a broken family and find her space within it all…!
It’s been some time now that we haven’t talked and I hope she is well…!
And I didn’t do it to her close to her in any way,
Infact as she opened up to me I felt her taking the place of my little sister that I never had…!
I’ll check up on her today as I remember this…!
I’ve been told that—
I write well and I must have published a few books by now—
To which I say that I’m still learning and finding myself in that process and shaping myself in a person that I want to be like who does things on his own accord without being influenced by others…!
If you are here reading this,
You must have read these are the things as compliments but it feels like none of them were a compliment to me—
They felt like subtle things that people notice…!
None,
Not even a single one of them felt to me like a compliment…
Maybe because I have a thick skin or my definition of compliment differ from others…?!
Cheers 🥂
Love Waakiye 🤍
Waakiye 