Morning Gorgeous!
This post is about something I've been meaning to write for a while. It is a little different for me as this one is a bit more personal than usual.
I wanted to address the issues girls have with other girls - the snap judgement based on appearance. We are all guilty of this whether we admit it or not, can you really stand up and say 'I have never judged another girl based on her appearance'? We all do it, maybe some of us without meaning to, but we do it nonetheless. I know I have said 'what on earth is she wearing?!' on numerous occasions and it is something I am trying to stop doing.
Basically how I came to start thinking about all of this was on a night out. We'd had a few drinks and were having the craic and I saw a girl in a gorgeous red jumpsuit, I said to my friend to look at how gorgeous it was and how fab the girl looked in it. I then thought to myself, why am I not telling her that she looks gorgeous in it?!
So I did.
I went over and told her she looked amazing and her jumpsuit was fab. It turns out, she'd had a baby a few weeks previous and this was her first night out since she had the baby. It was her boyfriends birthday and she was panicking about fitting into her clothes again. She was over the moon to have a stranger pay her a compliment and told me that I'd made her night because she had been feeling self conscious. It was such a small thing to do but it meant so much to her.
I came away smiling because she was so delighted and thanked me over and over.
Essentially my question is, why do we all not do this all the time?
Its not like I have never paid another girl a compliment before because of course I have but this girls reaction just stayed with me. How many more people in there felt the same way she did that night and would have be delighted for someone to pay them a compliment? You have no idea what is going on in someone else's head and that tiny compliment could make a massive difference to them.
It can take so little to put a smile on someone's face so lets all try and be the person who makes that happen. I am not one for 'always being positive' (if you know me then you know how true that is as I LOVE to complain!) but when it comes to something like this I think we can all benefit from a little positivity!
Your Homework
If you are in public and you think to yourself 'she's gorgeous' or 'that outfit is fab' or 'her makeup is on point' then walk up to that person and tell them!
That's all for today.
Happy Complimenting!
LL x
