It went something like this:
"Gilbert said you were the smartest girl in the class."
"I might have known he meant to insult me."
No...Prissy Andrews said that Charlie Sloan heard Gilbert say that being smart is definitely better than being pretty."
I'm one of those people who never finishes the book version of the movies I love. (Yes...once again, everything that's wrong with America.) So, this is the watered down version of the "Anne of Green Gables" conversation between Anne Shirley and Diana Barry, her bosom friend about Gilbert Blythe, the dreamy love interest.
It is the same conversation that came to mind when my husband gave me perhaps the best compliment of my life. It went as follows:
"You're more organized lately than you've ever been."
My husband. The king of all organization. The guy who won "most organized" in his senior class superlatives. I've said for a while that the two best compliments a person could give me are that I'm funny and that I'm organized. If Chad had followed that statement up with something like, "and organizing has made you totally hilarious!" well, I would have died right there. Happily.
So I've been pondering this compliment, because I'm wondering if, like Anne suspected Gilbert of meaning to insult her...Chad actually meant to drive me further in my efforts. Because now when things are laying out, I want to live up to this compliment. So I want to clean more. Do you hear that? I want to clean more. Weird. I mean.... weird. I don't actually think he meant anything mean at all....I just think that sometimes when someone gives you a compliment that makes you feel really great, then sometimes the pressure is on to make sure you live up to those words again.
Similarly, when I'm around people who have told me that they think I'm funny, I find myself trying to be funnier. Which is why I've started wearing purple hats with plaid pants. Just kidding! (See? Funny!)
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