relationships
Once, I invited my friends to a birthday lunch with the message: ‘No presents please,’ and added, ‘but you can all say one nice thing about me!’ Needy, I know! But, there is a tendency for people to feel they must do something on a birthday, and I didn’t want them to feel obliged to buy a gift. I thought the compliment idea was a great alternative – but, towards the end of the meal, no one had volunteered anything.
I nudged them and, in return, received awkward and anxious looks. A few friends stared hard at their plates. A couple volunteered a few ‘warm, witty and wises’… I turned to one of my oldest friends. She would not fail me. She would have something nice to say, surely?
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