In retrospect, if I had been able to peek into my camouflage future – an endless loop of deployments, homecomings, long goodbyes, sweet hellos, new schools, new neighbors and misadventures along the way – I wonder whether I would have accepted that dinner invitation.
They whisper, hi sweet thing, hello new audience data, hello CTIs.
Farewell, sweet youth; hello, male pattern baldness.
We heard this sweet little "Hello?" I said, "Colleen, Mommy's on the phone".
Hello, sweet cigar money!
The goodbye didn't smell as sweet as the hello.
Even before dystopias took over, most heroines were either languishing in rotting castles (like Cassandra Mortmain in I Capture The Castle) or so ridiculously perfect that you ended up hating them them (hello, Sweet Valley Twins...)...
I choose to enjoy my whole sweet life -- hello, come what may!" Let's set a New Year's resolution to live more in the eternal here and now, to spontaneously choose courage and integrity as our modus operandi -- and to hold firm, unfaltering faith in human love, inspired vision and wise, responsible, joyous actions.
Sure, the lyrics are dismal - "Bye bye love/Bye bye happiness/Hello loneliness/I think I'm-a gonna cry-y.... " And it gets worse -- farewell to sweet caresses and hello to emptiness and... this guy is through with love and romance, hell, he feels like he could die!
If you haven't already been drawn in by his stellar Mick Jagger impression, his respect for his teenage fans, his deliciously sentimental first solo singles (hello, "Sweet Creature") or his beautiful, ever-changing head of hair, chances are you can still appreciate this One Direction member's distinct sense of style.
