Compliments

Combat Vet Vision

Compliments
In a variety of ways compliments seemed to be hard to accept in today's society
Let's take the compliment that so often so many of us here all the time “Thank you for your service”
Some feel like this is possibly a cop out, possibly meaning nothing to the person that's asking, but why not give the benefit of the doubt?
Assume this person had enough guts to come up to talk to you to begin with, and really does have that deep appreciation.
Most Veterans on Veteran's Day go out for that free meal, some company or some organizations is paying for, to make sure you feel like you're appreciated.
Now somebody has enough guts to come up to you personally and thank you, how about for a minute why not give them a piece of your military history or some military history you know?
Particularly history of your fellow service members, that have done some incredible things, or you yourself that it served on something incredible.
The reason I bring this up is because I believe sometimes that America needs heroes whether you feel like one or not sometimes it’s important to put yourself in a place where you can just touch somebody else's mind heart and soul, give a piece of history, something you learned, some patriotic thing that you know and feel, but whatever that is, take it for what it's worth.
If it's not worth anything to you, and you feel like it's just a cop out, please, make sure you don't take any advantages that our government gives, that our people, society or organizations may want give you.
I feel and believe that our society as a whole has gotten away from compliments, uplifting comments and other type motivation, because there is quote in the military that states ,“no good deed goes un punished”.
It’s hard to sometimes find positivity and good words for others.
Lot of people constantly say chivalry is dead so we can't give compliments to anybody without offending somebody.
Is this a twisted moment in our society, where you can't say, do or be anything, because if you are you're offending something someone somehow somewhere, and you're just stuck in a never ending conundrum of “I shouldn't say anything, do anything”.
I believe sometimes we feel this way and we isolate, because it's easier to do nothing, than to deal with all the craziness, that's going on out there.
So, next time you hear a compliment, maybe, just for a second feel like somebody's trying to uplift you.
Or you yourself give somebody a compliment whether it's genuine enough to them or not, make sure it's genuine enough for you.
For me compliments should be a genuine way of articulating something to uplift somebody else, whether it uplifts you or has something to do with you or not.
Just be glad and happy that somebody has the ability and desire to give you an uplifting or small token of their appreciation.
Whatever that may be, word, phrase, gift or small token, if you want to be offended, you can definitely find offence in everything and anything if that is your reasoning.
I feel like it's getting harder and harder to actually say something to somebody, or appreciate somebody, or open a door for somebody, or help somebody out, you might just be offending somebody in this process.
I will tell my story of working for the school district and getting the balls off the hill…………………………….
What matters is, what matters to you, if you're offended from the “Thank you for your service”, then you should be offended from taking anything on this planet you should be offended for the free meal that's been offered to you the military discount you might ask for all these different things you are entitled to and just don’t bother getting any of those as well.
Remember - this is my opinion, this is not anybody else, this is me. If you're looking and you're offended, stop looking!
Thanks for listening to my show, thanks for having that understanding.
Maybe this will help somebody else.
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