It's A New Year! (Get On With It)

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The one thing I really get tired of is a good morning picture. Not a message. Good morning messages are one of the best things people do when they care. Good morning pictures are a completely different story altogether. The sun, flowers, sunflowers, happy children, happy animals- the whole pantheon of good morning image components. Hate them. A simple good morning? Love that.
However, along come holidays, birthdays and days like Christmas and New Year. Then the stickers get upgraded to images and the images get upgraded to videos. The videos usually have someone like an Amitabh Bachchan saying a ton of stuff, so these are not the type of greetings any young lady, or girl, will like. However, send them a video of Hrithik Roshan flaunting his abs, Harry Styles just being himself, or something along those lines, and you're golden. These are the only two examples I could think of right now, but there are tons more, so let me know who else should have been included. 
Sending such a greeting doesn't necessarily mean that your beau will accept it or like you for it, though. I'm speaking mainly to the boys here, in case you were wondering. There are a lot of other things which will determine whether your efforts will be appreciated, acknowledged or reciprocated by your femme fatale. The biggest of these- and I cannot stress this enough- is dumb luck. Not fate, dumb luck. The reason why I am addressing the boys here is simple- no other category of humans has the ability to overdo, overextend, over-explain or over-attempt anything like boys, irrespective of their age. 
Whoever coined the adage "Boys will be boys" showed unimaginable wisdom, which is probably why I think it had to be a lady. Or anyone but a male, frankly speaking. I don't mean to offend anyone here regarding gender sensitivity, so please excuse any errors I may have inadvertently made in the preceding posts, or paragraphs. 
Either way, New Year greetings in the form of stickers, videos and pictures are tiresome unless there is something genuinely motivational in it. The biggest problem I have with them-and trust me on this- is the amount of unnecessary storage space they take up in any phone. And yes, my phone runs short on storage because of those buggers, so I have a personal grudge. Don't judge.
Personally, January hasn't always been the easiest month for me, mainly because it marks the end of a year. Don't get me wrong; I love a new year, but the previous one hadn't been that bad. Unless, of course, we're talking about 2020- that year was bad straight off the bat, make no mistake. On top of that, making a mistake while writing the date is a gigantic, recurring pain. It's one of those mistakes you hate while you make it, but the moment you don't, it seems like a minor loss. Isn't it? It might just be me, but then again, it might not. 
Well, that's it for today. Have a great 364 days until the next year, and hope everyone's safe and sound. Adios!

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