5.27.25: Notifications

I do not understand people who have hundreds of red dot notifications on their phone’s home screen and just leave them there. How do you live like that? It would drive me insane. Every time I see a screen full of little red numbers, I feel this urge to start clearing them out. Emails, texts, app updates — whatever it is, just deal with it. Letting them pile up feels like letting chaos take over. Maybe it does not bother them, but to me, it looks like visual anxiety. I need a clean slate. Otherwise, it just feels overwhelming.