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I think a compliment is a genuine expression of admiration or acknowledgement, verbally speaking, of someone/something other than themselves, where that other entity has done something of their own volition to garner such respect.
Positive encouragement would be like a lesser compliment, like "nice hair, it suites you!" but you didn't even consider your look that day.
In this regard I've never received a compliment. Please enjoy this wallpaper. I have done nothing of note worth mentioning to others of my own volition, and my waning hope certainly doesn't help with that.
So the best "compliment" I've received would be "I like your hair" because my hair is an auburn red, not ginger but a brownish red, wavy as well. Everyone especially the mothers keep bothering me about it. But I was just born with this, and I'll probably bald like my father soon.