You Don’t Need a Reason to Send Something

Coffee with Celeste ☕️

Coffee’s brewing… can I tell you something? ☕️

I think we’ve gotten a little too good at waiting for a reason.

We wait for the birthday.
The baby.
The new house.
The hard news.
The milestone that gives us permission to show up.

And of course, those moments matter. They’re the moments when we know exactly what to do. Buy the card. Send the flowers. Drop something on the porch.

But some of the best things I’ve ever received didn’t come with an occasion attached to them.

They came because someone saw something and thought of me.

That’s it.

That was the reason.

And there’s something different about receiving something when you weren’t expecting it. When there’s no date on the calendar reminding someone to think of you. No life event prompting them to check in.

Just—

I saw this and thought of you.

I know this season has been a lot.

This made me laugh and I knew you’d get it.

I just wanted you to know I’m thinking about you.

Those little gestures have a way of landing differently.

Maybe because what they’re really saying is: You crossed my mind, and I did something about it.

Thinking of you is an occasion.

I started Pillow PACKS because I wanted to make it easier to show up for people during the moments when words are hard to find.

But the more I do this, the more I realize that showing up doesn’t always need to be attached to something big.

Sometimes your daughter is six weeks into college and you know she could use a little piece of home.

Sometimes your friend has been carrying a lot lately, even though she’d never say it.

Sometimes your sister is having a perfectly ordinary Tuesday and you just miss her.

Sometimes somebody has been the strong one for everyone else for a little too long.

There isn’t always a section in the greeting-card aisle for those moments.

Maybe there should be.

We don’t have to wait.

We’re all busy. We think about people all the time and tell ourselves we’ll text them later. We see something they’d love and keep scrolling. We mean to check in.

And then another day goes by.

I’m trying to get better at closing that gap between thinking about someone and letting them know I was thinking about them.

It doesn’t have to be a big gesture.

Send the text.

Mail the card.

Drop off the coffee.

Leave the flowers on the porch.

Send the ridiculous meme that only the two of you understand.

Or send the package.

The thing itself isn’t really the point.

The point is that you thought of them—and made sure they knew it.

Maybe we don’t need to wait until life gives us a reason to love people well.

Maybe thinking of them is reason enough.

Until next Tuesday,
Celeste ☕️

Helping people love people well