There’s a kind of message that doesn’t wait for a birthday or a hard day to justify itself. Just because messages exist for one reason only: someone crossed your mind, and you decided to say so. Below are 44 of them, sorted by who they’re for, from the person you love to the friend who
Most message advice online assumes you’re either celebrating something or trying to fix something. This is for the category nobody writes about properly: the ordinary Tuesday when someone just crosses your mind and you want to say so. I’ve sent a hundred versions of these brightening messages, badly at first, before I learned that the
Thinking of you does not need a reason. These 70 messages are organized by why you are reaching out, because the impulse behind an unprompted Tuesday text looks nothing like the one that goes out to someone two time zones away, and the message should reflect that. Whether it is a random check-in, a quiet