Wanting a friend who always shows up while you answer texts two days later is a double order.

Wanting reliability while offering the other thing is rarely malice, and it usually goes unnoticed from the inside, because your own delays arrive with reasons attached and other people’s arrive plain. The friendships that last tend to be the ones where both people hold up roughly the same end, not perfectly, but visibly.

Think of the person who consistently shows up for you. Reply to them today, properly, about the thing they last mentioned. It is a small correction and it gets felt, because being the one who always reaches first gets tiring in a way people rarely say out loud.