I LOVE LEOPARD PRINT!
In the above picture you can see the outfit that I wore last night (check the awesome thrifted leopard print maxi :-) along with this fantastic oversized necklace I bought recently. I received a few compliments on the necklace. One of those compliments came from a dude - and that conversation went something like this:
Dude: Oh, by the way I really like your necklace!
Me: Thanks! Yea, I got it for like $5 at this random shop on Harwin!
Dude: *awkward silence*
At first I was just excited to bring someone else into the revelry of thriftiness, but awkward silences have a way of giving you time to think through what you've just said. And that was when I realized how important it is to just say "Thank you." I mean men don't care when, where, why, or how you beat some other woman down in the store to buy a necklace. Other women might - well some - but it's just best to accept the compliment and move on. And if someone wants to know where or how much you paid they'll ask.
This is totally not a new concept. I mean I've been told once or twice I don't know how to accept a compliment. Usually this happens when someone tells me an outfit looks nice and I go into a diatribe about my weight and how nothing fits...totally negating the compliment by the end of the exchange. In the past I've done that for a couple of reasons: sometimes to fill the silence, but most times because I never felt good enough, or worthy enough to accept the compliment for what it was.
But silence is golden and I am worth a little bit of praise; everyone is for something. And that other person is worth the validation a "thank you" bestows on the compliment-er. Like always it's all connected. Ya' got to let that compliment soak into your skin, keep it simple, and just say "Thank you."
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