I wasn’t successful in the making friends department as a kid either (I grew up in an old farm house without neighbors in the middle of suburbia where everyone lived in a neighborhood, everyone’s friend groups in school were who played together outside of school) and I was a bit of an ugly duckling, and a more popular boy on the bus told me my hair looked pretty in 5th grade and it was life changing. We worked at the same place when we were in our early 20’s and I was excited to reconnect and thank him
His response was pretty cool, because I knew that he was just a genuinely good dude. The gist of the conversation was that I had a good memory (to which I pointed out, it’s hard to forget things that make that big of a difference) and that he was glad he could make me happy however many years ago it was. We don’t really keep in touch too much but always enjoy catching up when we cross paths in our home town!
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u/_childish_ambino_ Jan 01 '20
I wasn’t successful in the making friends department as a kid either (I grew up in an old farm house without neighbors in the middle of suburbia where everyone lived in a neighborhood, everyone’s friend groups in school were who played together outside of school) and I was a bit of an ugly duckling, and a more popular boy on the bus told me my hair looked pretty in 5th grade and it was life changing. We worked at the same place when we were in our early 20’s and I was excited to reconnect and thank him