Clapping for a friend’s win while yours is still loading is one of the strongest things you’ll ever do.

Being happy for someone while you are still waiting is genuinely hard, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. Two things sit in you at once: you want good things for them, and you want your own turn. Neither cancels the other out. Showing up for their moment anyway is not fake, it is you deciding which part gets the microphone.

Send the message before you overthink it. You can be glad for them at noon and quietly frustrated at midnight, and both still count. What you do not want is to go silent on someone because their timing beat yours.