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Am I the only one who feels awkward when receiving a compliment?
I'm trying to get in shape, in order to feel better. I walk every night since 1+ month. I've been runing for the past week, almost every day. Felt like the next logical step.
First time I ran, I felt like I was going to die after a minute. My God...
Tonight, some dude smoking near the sidewalk saw me running and told me "Hey man, you're good!". To which I didn't know what to reply... I just slowed down a bit and said "eh, thank you!"
I think about it and still feel it was awkward, because I don't think that, me running, is anything close to a big accomplishment worthy of possitive comments. That made me not expect a comment like that. Therefore, I felt weird and didn't have much of an idea what to say.
I feel like this almost every time I get a good comment on something I did. I mostly shrug it off by saying it's no big deal, just natural, or just the least I can do.
Am I the only one having issues when reacting to compliments? What do you recommend?
I'm trying to get in shape, in order to feel better. I walk every night since 1+ month. I've been runing for the past week, almost every day. Felt like the next logical step.
First time I ran, I felt like I was going to die after a minute. My God...
Tonight, some dude smoking near the sidewalk saw me running and told me "Hey man, you're good!". To which I didn't know what to reply... I just slowed down a bit and said "eh, thank you!"
I think about it and still feel it was awkward, because I don't think that, me running, is anything close to a big accomplishment worthy of possitive comments. That made me not expect a comment like that. Therefore, I felt weird and didn't have much of an idea what to say.
I feel like this almost every time I get a good comment on something I did. I mostly shrug it off by saying it's no big deal, just natural, or just the least I can do.
Am I the only one having issues when reacting to compliments? What do you recommend?