If you've had arguments over text messages, then you know how your thumbs get supersonic speed when typing. If there were an Olympic sport in fast typing, you'd just pick a time when you are having a heated argument with someone via text, and you and your smartphone would clinch gold.
That is also the time when you test your writing skills, a time to see if you learned something from all the writing classes you attended since primary school. Because this is when you will type a long paragraph. A detailed, mammoth paragraph explaining to Eric what you were doing with Steve, or explaining to Rita where those earrings she saw in your bedroom came from. You will give them an award-winning 2,500-word essay, with PDF attachments, screenshots, video footage, and links. A thesis that deserves global recognition and appreciation.
But most times, while typing that long paragraph, the other person, who is also typing their argument, will send you another message, and then you will have to stop typing, read the message, delete what you were typing initially, and start typing a new and revised argument, so that your rebuttal can accommodate the new accusations in the new message that the other person has sent. And while you are typing that, another message from that your enemy will come in, and, again, you'll have to delete what you were typing and start all over, because every new text brings something new that must be addressed. And, strangely, you just feel the need to address them all together in one, long, long text.
And then when you finally send that very long text, which is also risky, you quickly get the hell out of that messages folder/App and try to find a distraction while waiting for the other person to respond. But you catch yourself reopening the messages and reading your defense arguments, feeling like you've really slammed the shit out of that person, and wondering why you are not a highly-sought-after defense attorney. Then you feel like you still have something to add, and so you follow that text with another, a short(er) one, to finish off your opponent with one clean blow.
When your foe responds, your racing heart stops you from opening the message immediately because, sweet mercy, you have a feeling that the last text you sent them did not really knock them hard and cold like you'd expected. And when you finally read their response, you think, "Man, I wish I had said/typed that."
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