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I ran into a classmate in the grocery store yesterday. Actually, I ran into three, but this run-in had more meaning.

I had seen him and waved when I walked in. He was at the checkout stand, so I walked on. I mean, I hate it when people hold up the line. And I do like to visit, so I would have held it up.

But a few minutes later I found myself in the middle of a surprise hug! My friend had taken his groceries out and come back in to tell me, “You look absolutely adorable with your hair pulled back like that.”

I blushed.

And then I remembered something.

About a year ago there was a little tee-niny small picture of me in Oxygen magazine. They printed part of a letter I had written. I was proud, so I wanted to share it with my boyfriend.

I had my hair slicked back the way I had it at the store. And the only thing John could say was, “Slicking your hair back like that does nothing for me.”

No “congratulations” or even a “Wow. That’s neat.”

But, I have a choice.

I can listen to the one who said I’m adorable, or I can listen to the one who says it does nothing for him.

But isn’t that how it is? Just when we think we’re at the top, someone is there to remind us that we might not be.

And like with John and the magazine, those comments that tend to knock us down come when we’re at the highest rung of our own personal ladder of what we deem to be success.

But I have grown up girl ears. I’m not a little kid who has to listen and absorb everything.

I can choose to listen to what would lift me up or what would knock me down.

And y’all, I look adorable with my hair pulled back like this.

Yeah, I’m wearing it that way again today.

I think I’ll wear it this way every day, because my classmate says it’s a good thing.

And John? He just says, “Blah, blah, blah” …I can’t really hear him from up here.

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