The Quiet Art of Not Messaging Your Colleague on the Weekend

There’s an art in waiting the whole weekend just not to message your colleague at work.

I’ve spent many weekends holding back the urge to send a simple message — just to ask something work-related. It’s rarely urgent, but the thoughts keep coming. The questions. The ideas. The “I should probably ask this before I forget” kind of thoughts.

But I wait.

What do I do while waiting?

I think.

Interestingly, the weekend is when all these ideas start to surface. New angles, better questions, things I should’ve probably realized earlier in the week.

Maybe because only on weekends our minds are finally clear. During weekdays, our brains are constantly responding — emails, meetings, deadlines, chats, noise. There’s hardly any room to think.

Weekends give space. Silence. And ironically, that silence makes us want to speak up again. But we don’t. Because we respect the pause.
And that, I think, is an art.

But what do we really get during the waiting?
Sometimes, maybe, we find clarity. But most of the time, it only gets more complex. Or else, we forget about it 🤣The questions pile up, the mental drafts of what we want to say keep evolving. And honestly, it gets harder to wait.

Not everyone can do that. Bahkan aku pun masih berusaha belajar. Mungkin keliatannya sederhana, it’s all about patience?

Is it really about patience?