Friday, March 16, 2007

on beauty and compliments

i find it hard - very hard - to not tell a person he/she is beautiful when i see beauty in him or her.

and that more often than not has gotten me into trouble. each time that happens, i wonder - what is it about a compliment as such that makes people fear, that they think that i am weird, that they will be in danger of being stalked by yours truly?

i mean, can you imagine being stalked by a tall scrawny girl who laughs a lot and is always running around doing something? do you think Yer Haute Hawtness is truly Twenty-Ye-Gods-YO-HAWT-MAMA-thousand-degrees kinda hot?

Puh-leese. take the compliment and run with it already - fear for your safety? pffft don't make me laugh.

besides, it's not like i spot some beautiful stranger on the streets and go up to them to tell them that they're gorgeous!

not that i have told anyone such things lately (shame. i say 'shame' because i have seen some very beautiful people out there but just hadn't paid them that compliment anymore); cause the idea of complimenting them on their beauty is lost on them.

not many know how to be gracious and say a simple 'thank you' anymore.

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