Accept the god damn compliment!!
I dare you I'm setting you a dare this week and on the surface it sounds really simple but apparently it's really not. Your dare, should you wish to accept it, is to say thank you to the next person who pays you a compliment. Easy right? Well, I was actually quite saddened last Tuesday evening at my running club. Throughout winter we have a club race every 3 weeks or so and there's 8 races in total so of course you will have good runs and not so good runs during that time. I was amazed by the number of people last week who were so quick to dismiss a compliment from their fellow runners. People were saying 'oh well done tonight' and 'you looked to be having a good run' and all I heard in return was 'no, I was rubbish tonight' or 'I wasn't as good as last time' etc etc. Now in my eyes that's bordering on damn well rude to the person who's paying you a compliment. Think about for a second, they didn...