Long energy is the invisible tax that certain people, situations, or tasks put on your patience before you've even started. The friend who texts seventeen paragraphs to explain why they're five minutes late? Long energy. The meeting that could've been an email? Long energy. It's not just that something takes time — it's the particular vibe of something that feels unnecessarily drawn-out, complicated, or effort-draining from the jump. If you feel a sigh building before you've even engaged, that's long energy doing its thing.
I opened the instructions and immediately felt long energy — forty steps just to set up a printer.
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