I hit 500 unread emails in my inbox and started wondering if I'm actually a bad person
I opened my email on Tuesday morning and saw the little red badge say 500. Not 499, not 501, exactly 500. My stomach dropped. I sat there at my kitchen table in Columbus with my coffee getting cold, just staring at it like it was a test result. I keep telling myself I'll do a big cleanup on Sunday, but Sunday comes and I watch one more episode instead. Some of these are from 2019, stuff like store newsletters and old meeting invites from a job I quit. I deleted the app off my phone for 2 whole days and felt guilty the entire time. Is 500 actually that bad, or do most people just have everything on auto-archive and I'm the weird one for even looking?