How To: Top 5 Ways to Trick Yourself Out of an Existential Crisis

by Danielle

(For best results, try combining all five.)

1. Eat an entire tub of Ben and Jerry's. In the bath.

2. Order an alarming amount of sushi for dinner. Enough that the restaurant includes three sets of chopsticks. Ignore your dwindling back account. Ignore the judgemental look the delivery guy gives you when he realizes all this sushi is just for you.

3. Waste a couple hours browsing Asos. Free shipping + free returns = little-to-no guilt. (Even less guilt if you just add things to the 'Saved Items' page and never actually make a purchase.)

4. Light your favorite candles. Turn the lights off. Hide under three layers of blankets and bask in the good smells and near-darkness. Bonus points if you use those blankets to build a fort.

5. Binge-watch Gilmore Girls on Netflix. Resist the urge to compare your accomplishments to Rory's. She may be a teenager, but she's probably more together than you. After all, you're the one on the verge of an existential crisis, and she's the one who went to Yale (oops, spoilers).

Good luck.