I want words that can't be copy-pasted, and I want to deliver unique words

It's almost 2025.
People are already starting to prepare their New Year's cards here and there.

As for me, I've been living alone for a long time, and since communicating via social media has become the norm, I've stopped writing New Year's cards.
At most, I just send a New Year's greeting on LINE, and even then, I'm lazy enough to only reply if someone messages me first.

I am grateful to the friends who go out of their way to send me a "Happy New Year" message.
But at the same time, I have some thoughts about it.

That isit's just... receiving a "copy-pasteable" message is a bit much, so to speak.
For example, just "Happy New Year, wishing you the best again this year."
In other words, I feel a bit uneasy when I receive a message that could be recycled for anyone else.

I don't feel happy about copy-pasted congratulatory messages

Some might think, "You're being difficult even though someone went out of their way to send you a message."
On that point, I do feel (just a little bit) sorry.
But I feel like I've had this sense of discomfort toward "copy-pasteable messages" since before I was an adult.

Looking back, there were times when we would exchange messages at various milestones other than New Year's greetings.
For example, exchanging colored paper with classmates at graduation, or celebrating birthdays in a group.

And every time I received a message, I would secretly be excited, wondering, "What kind of words did they write for me?"
But I would be disappointed if it just said something like, "It was fun being in the same class, let's meet again."

Or just writing, "Happy birthday, wishing you the best again this year."
※Since I was born in January, I get a lot of messages like this.

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Seriously, there must be something more to write than that

If it's school, we must have spent time in the same space for several years, and if it's a friend, there should be at least one specific episode or personality trait of mine they could mention.
At the very least, I can talk about specific episodes regarding the other person.

Yet, when I receive a message that lacks specificity and is copy-pasteable, I end up thinking,"Aren't they just recycling the same message for everyone else?".

I really am a difficult person.

To go even deeper into my contrarian nature, when I receive these copy-pasteable messages, instead of feeling grateful, I become dismissive, thinking, "Yeah, yeah, thanks a lot."
That is how important "words" are to me.

I want to deliver unique words tailored to the person

I can hear a voice from somewhere asking, "What about you, then?"
Looking back at myself, I have always included specific episodes since I was a child.

I always included stories about trips that mentioned specific places or events, the values or personality traits the other person cherishes, or things they said or did.

For example, the cliché phrase, "It was fun always being with you, [Name]."
Even this becomes a unique episode just by writing, "It was fun how we used to talk about stupid things at McDonald's on the way home from school."
At the very least, I am happier with messages like that.

Graduation messages, birthday messages, company farewell parties...
I make sure toalways write words tailored to the person.
Conversely, I value unique messages so much that I feel that if someone can only create a "copy-pasteable message," it means they have no interest in me.

This applies not only to celebrations but also to comments on platforms like note.
I sometimes see people on social media sending messages like carpet bombing to increase their followers, and there are quite a few people where I wonder, "Did you actually read the post?"

I think that just sending a message without tailoring your words to the recipient is no different from being an impression zombie.

Words are a means of communication, and there is a living, breathing human being on the receiving end.
That is precisely why I want to continue delivering unique words tailored to the person I am speaking to.

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On the other hand, I am a lazy person who also thinks it would be easier if I didn't receive a 'Happy New Year' LINE message, because then I wouldn't have to think about a reply.
I sometimes even wonder if generative AI could come up with a nice reply for me.
(That ruins everything.)