“You are Resilient”

What’s the most meaningful compliment anyone has given you?

There are little things we say that have a huge impact on others.

I still remember the total stranger who saw me and not the heavy, swollen, 39-weeks-pregnant-walking-belly-billboard at BYU. As I was trying my best to be invisible walking down the hall to my class, she stopped and said “I love your shirt! That is really cute!”

I don’t know why— but the fact that she took the time to compliment me— a complete stranger in the middle of a crowded hallway deeply touched me. Maybe it was because it had been a few months since I’d felt cute in anything— but that compliment lifted me up for about a week.

I wanted to be more like her and wondered why it was so hard for me to compliment strangers freely like she did.

Our words can make a lifetime of difference.

In my early college days, a friend looked me in the eyes and with total confidence and authenticity said, “You are resilient.”

And I have never forgotten it. No one had ever said that to me before. In my hardest times, I hear that voice saying “You are resilient.”

It has become a mantra and a phrase that has carried me through life. Even in my hardest, darkest times, I can be resilient.

That was the most meaningful compliment I’ve ever received because someone saw something in me that I hadn’t seen before. They lit a tiny spark of belief in my soul that became a flame.

So I want to know— What’s the most meaningful compliment anyone has given you?👇🏻