The sun went down and my tea went cold... like the whole world just kinda forgot I was even here for a minute. That ever happen to anyone else? I was just scrolling, you know, on the local news page, looking at comments on some dumb article about the new park rules. And it just kept going, like a really dark tunnel. One comment after another, just mean stuff, really sharp edges. People calling each other names over a swing set, like their whole lives depended on being right. And I just kept reading. My eyes felt like they were getting stuck in glue, pulling me deeper and deeper into all that… nastiness. It wasn't even about anything I cared about. Just strangers yelling at each other in tiny little boxes. But it felt... heavy. Like all that anger was leaking out of the screen and into my room, making the air thick. I didn’t even realize the light was gone until my reflection in the window was just a blurry ghost. And my tea, the one my mom made for me to "help me focus" on homework, was totally iced. My stomach felt twisted up, like I’d swallowed a bunch of little sharp rocks, even though I hadn't even said anything myself. I just watched it all unfold, like a wreck on the highway you can't look away from. Am I the only one who gets stuck like that? And then I felt... kinda gross. Like I’d wasted all that time watching people be awful to each other when I should’ve been doing my math. Or helping my mom with dinner. She works so hard, comes home tired, and I’m just... watching a fight that’s not even mine. It feels like I'm eating up air that someone else needs, or something. Like there’s not enough good stuff to go around already, and I’m just making it worse by soaking in all the bad. My phone screen felt hot in my hand, like it was burning away the hours. And now it’s late and my homework's still sitting there, and I just feel... empty. Like a soda can after all the fizz is gone.