I may have written awhile back about wanting to be complemented once in awhile. Well, two days ago, the thought just popped into my head about that conversation had with an old friend and also here. I am in such a different place about that, that it is worth a chuckle. Of course someone appreciating you and letting you know, will always be an emotional massage. However, I can now say that any feel good should always start with you. Having to get it from outside yourself is swell, but if you keep doing that, then when you don't get it, you think you need to look for it from outside and then your always looking for it somehow. You don't have to look in the mirror and tell yourself things. That may be a start, but really you have to massage your own heart. You have to be gentle with yourself. But not just gentle, your not playing games or patronizing yourself. You are really considering the little person inside the grown up you. That is the person deserving of the complements and they have to come from you. Build from within.