retropost: the original draft response to something i no longer remember the context for at all, but it still seems important

i will try to do better. i say often that i have a hard time texting people back, to the extent that sometimes i'm at risk of writing it off as a permanent character trait. truthfully, i've put a number of measures in my routine that are supposed to help, but they aren't working. i need to get better at communicating promptly in order to show the truth that i actually do care, but i don't know how to improve.

. . . sorry, i'm making this about me again. i understand and will try to find a better way to respond to things with the time and energy i have available.

speaking from experience, i cannot be relied on to reply during work hours. that is a boundary i must set in order to give my best to the things in front of me, and not keep interrupting in order to have text conversations. so that means i need to have more consistent times before and after work, and maybe at lunch, for communication efforts. you sent that on Saturday, so my reasoning must have been based on a lack of energy rather than time. i do not yet know how to reckon with deficiencies and inconsistencies in my energy levels.