I Guess it's a Compliment

I enchant and entrance and make people’s lives better and their work experience more enjoyable and then I leave and they never hear from, or see, me again. And their lives are not as full as they were when I was around.

According to an old work buddy, I ran into. Almost his exact words. How about that? One of the few times in life that I have been speechless.

I guess it's a compliment.

I laughed and changed the subject, asked him how he was?

That is too much to live up to.

Funny the things people think of which that you are often completely unaware. I heard myself stutter. Wow, I thought, I have never heard someone say such things about me. I couldn’t help but smile. I was kind of waiting for the punch line.

“Oh, well, thanks,” I said. “Wow.” The wow just kind of came out.

“Haven’t you ever heard that before?”

“No, never.”

“You must have heard it, as everyone felt that about you.”

“Oh, come on, you must be exaggerating.”

“No, no, I’m not exaggerating, ask anyone who we worked with.”

I was waiting for the punch line, but it never came.