Awaiting the Reply Anxiety (try to not panic - and then teach us how)

Did they get the message? Yes, they did because you can see it has been read. Good. Now you can move on to...wait...

wait...there it is. The "they are typing back" notification. You wait for the reply... .... .... .... you wait for the reply... ... ... ...

...they are still typing back. Should you type something more?  Do you just wait it out? .... .... .... ....

Oh my...they are STILL typing. They have a lot to say... this seems pretty serious. It must be!

Now the anxiety sets in. Anxiety eventually leading to potential world-altering assumptions.

This is not anxiety stemming from what the reply is. This is anxiety stemming from what the reply might be or might not be.

Perhaps the old saying, "if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all," should be updated to, "if you have nothing to say, then don't attempt to say anything."


This would save us all the anxiety of awaiting the reply, of not knowing, and then dreading the typing that never will end, attached to the message that just won't send.

Try to not panic. It probably isn't too serious. It is probably nothing. No reason to get worked up.

Never mind, they stopped typing. I guess it wasn't important.

... ... ... ... Or was it?

OK, now I'm worried.