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4:48pm July 29, 2014

If you want to make someone uncomfortable, compliment them.

Seriously, it’s much nicer to get anon love than anon hate, but I keep thinking “crap people will think I’m actively encouraging people to think of me as this amazing person, and I’m not” or “how do I deserve this?” or “I can’t be as nice as people think I am” or other things like that.  Sometimes I do think it’s literally true that people see me as a better person than I am (because they only see certain sides of me, online), but other times I think I’m just uncomfortable with compliments, like, apparently, most people are.

Notes:
  1. dusty-soul reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  2. katisconfused said: you can respond to the non-anon ones privately maybe so there are less on the blog? you could also just save them in your inbox to look at when you’re sad which is pretty popular too.
  3. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from feliscorvus and added:
    Very true. And squirrely is exactly the feeling.
  4. feliscorvus reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Reblogging to note that - this is generally true for me as well, but I have also noticed the TYPE of compliment matters....
  5. feliscorvus said: The thing I always worry about is that maybe I wrote something that was taken as “fishing for compliments”. But people who thought that probably wouldn’t give compliments so I am not sure where that comes from. Maybe just discomfort.