What’s the best (or rather, worst) backhanded compliment you’ve ever received? If you can’t think of any — when’s the last time someone paid you a compliment you didn’t actually deserve?
Back handed compliments never fall short in this world, but rather than focusing on the negative I would like to discuss compliments. Obviously. Compliments are the best.
After starting this blog I would get the occasional “you just have it all figured out” as though to suggest just that… I had my life figured out. They would then take it further to state that they did not as though to ask me the greatest question of all: HOW? The craziest part about this situation is that it happened more than once. Each time someone would discuss the life I posted on the internet, I wondered what I was projecting that someone would assume that I solved a piece of life’s puzzle. It felt odd because I often felt as though I had so much to resolve within my own life. The truth is, we all want to figure “it” out and find ourselves, or discover what creates a greater meaning for us in this world. But who has any of these things really figured it? Deepak Chopra?! Certainly not me.
So while it has been exceptionally flattering that people think because I am self-reflective in a public forum that this living this is so easy it’s for the birds, it’s not. I’m just soaking up this world too. And since I have zero insight to provide you with, I’ll leave you with my boy, Deepak.
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52 Miles per Month 
This reminded me of a story I heard about one of my friends. They were all at a stag party and the stripper hadn’t turned up yet. It was at a bar and our friends turned to one of the other bar patrons and asked her if she was the stripper….because “you know, you’re pretty enough to be the stripper”. Nice one bro. Real nice.
On my goodness. Hahahahaha. I wouldn’t know how to take that, honestly! On one hand it’s like, aw, you think I’m attractive on some level… On the other hand… Well, you know.
I know right? I guess it’s a compliment to her body rather than her face? I know I don’t have a strippers body…I have a food blogger’s body. Ha!
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