Daily writing prompt

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?

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Well, the first thing I do is cheer. The second thing is issue a bunch of apologies to myself and others as most of the time, that news would have pertained to something that had previously stressed me out as I would more than likely worried about the outcome. When I get worried and stressed out, I usually end up having an emotional meltdown as I brainstorm possible outcomes of the situation as well as how I would deal with those situations if the outcome wasn’t what I had initially wanted. I’m going to come right out and say this. Most of the time, the great news I get is usually something as simple as mom returning one of my 1000 missed calls and even better is if she does this before I have to move on to something else. The problem with this is that in the gap between each missed call and the time she returns it, I’ve likely relived issues I had in my teenage years a million times as if they were relevant having believed the problem to have come to life, (I’m not going to say what this was,) but I will say this. Most of the time, these occurrences usually lead me to believe that I should never have a girlfriend as in my imagination, let’s just say she has a lot to do with the reason why mom missed the call in the first place until I realize the single most important detail….the fact that I do not have one thus making the stress for nothing. One thing that does accomplish though is the answer to the age old question of whether or not I should ever seek out another one and this answer is a definitive no. I mean, look at all the trouble a fake one causes me. I can only imagine that if I ever had a real one, well, I might not even survive the ordeal at my age and may even end up incarcerated as a result. As a matter of fact, some of my family members have voiced their fear in me ever having another one just because of what would happen if things didn’t work out. Having returned to my normal self since the ordeal with my first girlfriend, (which took me five years to get over even after she had moved away and had no contact with me or any member of my family,) I am also afraid of what would happen if I ever found a girl to call my girlfriend and to bring home to mom. Let’s just say that not only is it not a good idea but it should be illegal. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, some of you might believe that I’m down in the dumps about not having a girlfriend. Well, this was the case for a few years especially when almost everybody else in my family had significant others which lead me to getting depressed. However, things have indeed changed since then and I don’t want a girlfriend. On Valentine’s day, I will sit back on my la z boy chair and watch rom coms. Despite wanting nothing to do with love myself, romantic comedies are one of my favorite movie genres and I will binge some on Valentine’s Day which will in turn be good for my movie blog status. If you ask me, I think this presents a win win situation.