When you postpone, cancel, or ghost a friend last minute because you're "too tired," you 1) disrespect their time and 2) send a clear, hurtful message: that thing you were looking forward to doing together? I wasn't looking forward to it.
"But I only slept four hours last night."
"But I had a long week at work."
"But I'm burnt out."
Then. Stop. Making. Plans.
EDIT: yes, I agree, medical events are not tantamount to flaking.
I swear since 22 Jump Street came out in 2014 almost a fucking decade ago, the premise of so many teenage characters in movies are these chronically offended Karens who are quick to accuse the More Experienced Older Protagonist of holding onto values of a bygone era. I just saw the movie No Hard Feelings last night, and Jennifer Lawrence plays a 32 year old who stumbled into a college party and is accused of being bigoted by a crowd armed with live streaming smartphones.
Why are we still doing this cringe shit? For fucks sake, why? Are we literally going to be the ones making "PHONE BAD. NEW THING BAD. REMEMBER OLD THING? WAS GOOD." jokes over and over?
I get characters in movies are often reduced to stereotypes for comedic value, but hasn't this been done to death over the last decade? Every goddamn Netflix movie made about teens has these characters now.