A Verbal Massage

48. "Compliment, please." 😌

Asking for help with shame says: ⁣

You have the power over me.⁣

Asking with condescension says: ⁣

I have the power over you.⁣

But asking for help with gratitude says:⁣

We have the power to help each other.” ⁣

- The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer


When we can adopt the understanding that we are surrounded by souls who offer the same acts of compassion that we are equally willing to give, it makes the act of the ask so smooth. ⁣

Who could you contact today, with a simple “compliment, please?” ⁣

How could you give one out? ⁣

Small acts of kindness matter, and so does the huge act of asking. ⁣

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