oh crap, sorry mary. you already said that. e-mail is trickier than real conversation. Some social patterns perhaps don't translate at all as they should...
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: [Mary Replies] > I was always in the Marsha camp on this, feeling very uncomfortable with > compliments until one day it occurred to me that it's part of the social > dance. A compliment requires a gracious acceptance because if you fail to > do that you are in effect questioning the judgment of the complimentor > (sp?). To accept a compliment is to give one in return. > > Best to all you lovely people! :) > Mary But really... is that really "best"? Doesn't it keep people in this trapped social bubble of constraint that prevents any real depth or real connection because it maintains a defensive clinging to "proper" responses? Wait. I'm doin' it again. I'm intellectualizing when I should just be responding properly... best to you too Mary ;) John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
