To ask you what was the nicest thing anyone has said to you?

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Following on from the tactless thread, maybe something to cheer us up.
On just giving birth to DS. DH DM DF & DMIL all in delivery room making a fuss of DS.
My DF walked straight up to me and said "I am so proud of you and I have never seen you look as beautiful as you do right now".

I was sitting in a café recently with a friend when a young woman came up to me and asked if I was "FarelyKnuts". When I replied in the affirmative she told me her name, she was the now grown up child I had worked with 15 years ago. I was her residential key worker when she arrived as a 16yo pregnant unaccompanied minor from Sierra Leon. I helped her until she was resettled (much to my anger and disgust) on the day of her 18th birthday in a refugee centre halfway across the country.
She told me that she had been searching for me for 5 years since she had been back in our town, that she had gone back to the place I was working at that time but it is closed down now. She wanted to thank me for my kindness and care for her when she was alone, scared and pregnant. That she shows my picture to her daughter all the time and tells her that "this is the lady who helped us when you were born" and that she is now training in the university to become a youth and community worker because I inspired her!
I still well up every time I think of it.

I remember my DSIS coming in one day and saying how she had seen a woman walking down the street 'and her walk was so bouncy and happy. I wished I could be like her . . .and then I realised it was you.' I'd never thought about how I walked or whether I looked happy but it made me smile that even my walk was noticeably happy with life And I still remember it now, and think how I'm walking is quite a good guage of my mood.

The other comment I remember came from my aunt. My family are always very slow to compliment and never mention anything about our careers, etc. I was working in a post which I had always wanted since I was a little girl and no-one had mentioned it all. Then one day, my aunt said, completely out of the blue, 'It's amazing! A wee lassie from x, doing what you're doing. It really is amazing!' She seemed so proud of me and I was so touched because it felt like it gave me permission to be a wee bit proud of myself too.

Some of these making me weep.

Well done all of you. Amazing how much difference you have made to the lives of others. :)

I got a lovely email from an ex-student. She'd fallen out with me and stopped coming to classes, blanked me if I saw her in the street etc. then out of the blue she emailed to say she was doing really well in her career and it was partly because she'd finally decided to listen to the training I'd given her and follow it.

A woman came up to me in a shopping centre once and said she often saw me about with my DTs and she always noticed how clean and well looked after they were. I had bad PND at the time, and really worried about my ability to take care of two babies at once. Her words at that time meant the world to me.

That she shows my picture to her daughter all the time and tells her that "this is the lady who helped us when you were born" and that she is now training in the university to become a youth and community worker because I inspired her!

Farely, that made me cry.

OnlyLovers it fairly made me sob too a

'I remember you, you were nice to me in high school.'

I had 4 miscarriages before I fell pregnant with my DD and when I announced my pregnancy in my office a colleague of mine gave me a hug and said "I can't think of a baby that will be more loved" it was such a lovely thing to say.

My brother once said about my new hair "that cut makes you look unusually nice".

my ds told me 'i was very beautiful like a princess ' and when I said thank you his reply was 'your very welcome '

Today. A 14 year old kid asked me 'have you always been so kind?' Seeing as I had him in detention and this week have imposed many many punishments on him I felt seriously touched. So grateful that he did get it,that I do these things because I care and want him to learn not because it gives me pleasure.

I was waiting to cross the road with my youngest in the pushchair and my older one standing alongside. A woman waiting alongside me asked me if the children were mine. I said they were and she asked if I had more children. When I said "no" she replied " if you can make such lovely kids you should have 10". I walked down on the road on air! That was 30 years ago and still whenever I walk down that road I remember her.

I got told this evening by a very good friend that she feels she only ended up having the Birth she wanted (vbac) due to my encouragement, info, confidence in her, and support.

DS2 was telling me all about a new teacher at his daycare.

He wrapped up by saying 'and she is really beautiful too, not as beautiful as you Mummy but still very beautiful'.

The woman I question is a stunner.

The day after I had my mastectomy, a nursing assistant was helping me shower. I had drains everywhere and a horrible scar. She looked at me and said, "You look fab!" She listened to me for half an hour while I cried about something which was weighing me down and related her own experiences.

After my diagnosis, my Dh said, "I want us to grow old together". It meant the world to me.