A stranger’s comment on your post took them four seconds. Don’t spend four days on it.

The line you have been carrying around all week cost the person who wrote it almost nothing. They typed it between other things and forgot it immediately. Your mind weighs words by how they landed, not by how much care went into them, which is why something careless can outlast something kind.

When a comment keeps coming back, ask how long it took to write. If the honest answer is a few seconds, that is your measure of how much thought it has earned. Mute or delete instead of rereading, and tell one real person so it stops living only in your head.