A Little Compliment Goes a Long Way

I used to have pretty low self-esteem when I was a teenager. People had made fun of my skin color a lot since I was a pre-teen. They used to call me "black", althought my skin wasn't even half as dark as Africans. When I was 14, I had to wear braces for almost 3 years, and yeah, they made fun of that too. Also, the fact that my 2 womanly bums seemed to stop at barely A Cup size made things even worse. Luckily, my family and relatives were very supportive in reminding me that looks is not everything and that I'm very far from being ugly.

It took me a while to build up my self-confidence and self-esteem. Thanks to Professor who introduced my to English Debate Club and English Drama Club. He helped me realize that beauty is nothing without brain. Since then, I always give compliments to myself as a way to support my own mentality. I stop relying on someone to tell me that I'm pretty. I believe; therefore, I am. However, it feels really great to receive compliments from other people though.

Last Saturday, I went shopping with my younger sister at Siam Paragon. She wanted to buy a new pair of sandals. We were waiting for a salelady to process the purchase, so I looked at other shoes to kill time. I was holding up a high-heel and excitedly calling for my sister to look at it when a man, an Italian I guess, who happened to walk by stopped in front of me and said "Let me see that again."

I was puzzled for a few seconds and thought that he wanted to see the shoe I was holding. I showed it to him . He smiled and said, "No, I want to see your smile"

Well, I couldn't help myself smiling back at him. Then he said "Very nice" and was back on his way.

Yes, that's it for the whole story. No small talk or exchanging phone numbers. Nothing thrilling in this entry. Hey, it's a blog of The Plain Jane. What do you expect? Still, what the man said kinda made my day, you know. I'm not the kind of girl who fetch for compliments, so it's really special when people randomly offer it to me.