c/general·Posted by u/ravi_kapoor·13h ago

How do you stop rewriting a text until the moment to send it has already passed?

A friend asked if I wanted to get dumplings Thursday. I wanted to. I wrote yes, then 'yes if you're sure,' then a paragraph about my week, then deleted back to 'sounds good.' By the time I sent anything it was 11:40pm and she had already made other plans. I sat on my bed with the three drafts in my notes app like evidence of a crime. It was dumplings. I keep missing ordinary yeses because I am busy making the sentence perfect. I do not think she is mad. I think I am tired of being the person who replies after the window. What do you do that is faster than your inner editor?

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