It's hard for a lot of extroverts to understand what it feels like to have a rapidly draining social battery, and I can understand why; if you've categorically never experienced it yourself, then I can't expect you to fully empathize with the situation. But if you can understand an iPhone battery, you can understand a social battery.
Sometimes your iPhone is at 100% and you can use it for hours on end. Sometimes your iPhone is at 5% and it needs to sit by itself in the corner for a bit and recharge.
Sometimes your friend has an iPhone 13 Pro Max and the battery never seems to drain no matter how many hours you put on it. And sometimes your friend has an eight-year-old iPhone 5S and it'll die after an hour or two of talking.
Sometimes your iPhone battery will be low, but you're expecting a four-hour phone call in a few hours, so you charge it up a little bit to get you through that phone call. And as long as you have adequate time to prepare for the phone call, you won't have any issues.
Sometimes you're not expecting the phone call, though. Sometimes someone surprises you with a four-hour phone call while your phone is at 5%, and no matter how much the phone might try to cut corners and keep itself alive, it's going to die at some point in the middle of the conversation. You can't just surprise an almost-dead iPhone with activity like that and expect things to go smoothly.
But even if you don't always know what battery level everyone's iPhone is at before you call them, that shouldn't stop you from calling them. You just also shouldn't get pissed off if their phone dies in the middle of the conversation or if they say they can't really talk right now because their phone is at 1%. You just accept the fact and call back later.
Get it?
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