An Air Of Elegance :: Little acts of kindness and goodness have been paid to me this week: a flower at work, a jacket to borrow in the rain, rockclimbing with a new friend, a run, dinner, and sleepover with an old friend. However, top of my list is this comment I received at random in the hallway from a co-worker today:

“You always have such an air of elegance about you.”

My response with a laugh, “Me!? What on earth do you mean?”

“Whenever I see you walking around or interacting with people you’re just so beautiful and elegant about it.”

Still a little stunned, I get with the program and accept the compliment “Thank you for saying that. It’s actually a really nice thing to hear.”

If only she knew that in the past week I have spent 2 hours sobbing on the sidewalk only to fall asleep on the ground with perfect strangers stepping over me, shown up to work with blackberries literally all over my face and in between every single tooth, and forgotten to wear a bra…on a date!

All to say, elegant is not quite how I usually think of myself, but its good to know that others sometimes and maybe even consistently see the lovely, beautiful and elegant in us even when it is the farthest thing from our own self perception.