Why Are We Like This?

Overthink everything? Procrastinate professionally? Replay conversations from 2017? Yep, you're human. Funny, curious little stories about why we do the things we do.

I Opened My Phone for One Thing. 47 Minutes Later, I Was Still There.

13 Aug 2026 2 minute read 0 comments TheEverydayMind

Doomscrolling, short-form content, and the strange feeling of being online without actually enjoying it. I opened my phone to check one message. One. Forty-seven minutes later, I was watching a stranger make a tiny chair for a hamster. I don't own a...