Compliments

When I pay a compliment to one of my students, his or her face immediately lights up. In that moment they feel good, confident, and most importantly smart and capable. They know how to accept compliments because they want to hear it, they need to hear it, and they search for it. It's nice when people say nice things to us. It gives us reassurance and motivates us just a little more. In a perfect world, we wouldn't need that from other people. We'd be comfortable in our own skin, doing what we love because society wouldn't be stopping us. Unfortunately, our world isn't perfect, society does stop us and that in itself should give us all the more reason to compliment each other whenever we can, especially when it's needed.