Compliments, Outgoing And Uninhibited, And Taking A Friend's Advice Or Not?

Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions prompt - When you are given a compliment do you usually acknowledge it or suggest that you really do not deserve it?

I would want to say nobody's perfect to the sign above. I haven't been given that compliment, however, I have given the compliment like this: You are perfect, just the way you are! And I would accept that compliment.

I learned in recovery that not accepting a compliment is saying the person giving the compliment doesn't know what they are talking about, or that they are just trying to be nice, or that they want something. Then is that something you want for that person?

So, I accept a compliment, without making a face, frowning, arguing, laughing, or making a joke as I did when I was younger.

It is nice to get compliments sometimes. I am 71, and I appreciate hearing, "I thought you were in your 50s. Nice! Then this, "Looking good!" I want to add for an old person, but I don't. I like to hear "Nice bike!" It's not really about me, but I like that compliment. It can get me to clean my bike.

I get men wanting to friend me who are single. That is a compliment at times, and then I always think it can be a scam. I think old people are ripe for a scammer. I only accept people I know, even if my friends know them on Facebook. Then, I think can't they see I'm happily married? Not accepting compliments here.

Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions prompt - What sorts of things would you do if you could be as outgoing and uninhibited as you wished? Do you usually initiate friendships or wait to be approached?

I will initiate friendships and will just be friendly and talk to most, not expecting it to be any more than a simple conversation. Living for many years, I have friends from high school and friends that I just met this year.

I don't think you can have too many friends. I think you can have too few friends, though. I am getting to the age where I have friends in their 80s and even a friend who is 90. It doesn't mean I will outlive them, but the odds are more in my favor at this time.

I don't need replacement friends, but I do need friends who are my age and younger, too.

Gregory Stock's The Book of Questions prompt - If you decided to do something and your friends strongly advised you not to, could you do it anyway?

Yes, I could do it anyway

I could do it my way

I do respect what my friends say,

and it depends a lot on the day,

the rebellious or maybe I'm happy and gay

on this day. Then what is something

I want to do? Marry or buy a ring?

Sign up to sing?

Apply for a certain job or make and sell a thing?

What would friends not want me to bring?

That is the more interesting question to me?

Maybe I will do a survey. And then I will see

I am pretty down to earth, and not a big risk taker, be

careful now that you don't bring up my bike

Too late, hike

I just did, and Mike

would tell you, she should ride a trike

Pat would say a convertible is just like

a bike, Joanna says, "Mom, there are

training wheels for motorbikes now" far

out, won't you consider them, or drive a car!

Do children count as friends?

Not when they want to put an ends

to my bike riding, as it sends

me into a tizzy that has no bends!