Some of your best messages are the ones you typed, read twice and deleted.

Some true things do not need to be sent. Writing it out does most of the work, because the feeling needed somewhere to go more than it needed a reader. What is left after you reread it is usually a smaller, more accurate point, or nothing at all. Deleting is not cowardice when the send button would have cost you a friendship.

Write the whole thing next time, in your notes app rather than the chat box. Come back in an hour and decide what still needs to leave your phone.