“I stopped pedalling at the top of the slope and the bike kept rolling on its own, purely from inertia.”
From Latin inertia, meaning laziness or idleness. It gives us the word inert, which is what scientists call a gas that refuses to react with anything.
Catch one thing today that is still happening only because it already started — a habit, a rolling ball, a queue — and name it out loud.
💬 Which habit in this family keeps going just because nobody has stopped it?