Complements

Where to begin...I mean this is my first post. Does it have to be something special, something meaningful? Or can it just be the random toughts I've always had? I hope its the latter...

I guess I'll start with something that's been bothering me lately. I've recently taken up a new hobby of complementing people when they do an especially good job. This is a new thing for me, as those that know me personally are quite aware, because I'm quite the a nihilist when it comes to my expectations of others.

I did it mainly because it seems to me that we're just getting too bogged down in the drudgery of the world that we can't ever see the good we're doing. If everyone just got a compliment every now and then, the world would probably be a better place.

But this hobby has had some unexpected consequences. I entered this new practice with an altruistic goal, but altruism is something that nobody in the world seems to understand. Every time I complement a girl, she thinks I'm hitting on her, and every guy I complement thinks I'm being sarcastic. It's like people are so insecure about themselves that to recieve a complement must have some ulterior motive (either sleeping with them or breaking their will to live).

Why? Are people so unused to recieving praise? Is that what this world has come to? I hope not. That would be tragic, to say the least.