Funny good luck messages serve a specific function before a stressful event: they interrupt the spiral just long enough for someone to breathe. Not every high-stakes moment calls for a heartfelt paragraph. Sometimes a single sentence that makes someone laugh once does more good than anything earnest you could write. These 55 messages are sorted … Read more
Before surgery, the person waiting does not need a recovery message. They need something for right now, for the night before when the quiet gets too loud, for the morning of when everything feels too real and too close. Words of encouragement before surgery work differently from get-well messages because they do not try to … Read more
“Good luck” is well-meaning and almost entirely useless before a job interview. It hands the outcome to chance rather than to the person who has done the work. What lands better, and more memorably, is a message that tells someone you already see them in the role, that speaks to where they are emotionally right … Read more