|
I like to receive a compliment but actions for me speak louder than just words. Over time, I have started complimenting others just naturally, because I feel like it. Not as a form of flattery but usually just because I really think at that moment that I should tell them how nice they are/look/what a good thing they have done/said. Usually people are pleasantly surprised by the fact that I have chosen to say something at that particular moment. It's great to see someone smile at you sincerely because you just made them feel good.
__________________
Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
|