The Best Thing to Text a Friend | Cup of Jo

It’s about how it’s critical to have people in your life who love you and see you when you’re fun and sparkly and on top of the world, but also love you when you’re stagnant and petulant and self-sabotaging and letting them down. It’s about how that kind of love makes you believe in other kinds of love. It’s about how the essential texture of life ... See more

it can take just a minute or five to send a friend a text or a voice memo that will mean the world to them, that will store ur love in their heart for a long, long time

I know how much it means to be thought about during a celebration. If you know your friend is out to dinner for their anniversary, birthday, job promotion, whatever, call the restaurant and send a bottle of wine or dessert to their table. It’s thrilling to anticipate how surprised and delighted they’ll be.

The way you change a person is by getting through not to their head or their will but to their heart.