2 min read Newsflash: It’s a dark and scary time. The majority of Americans are understandably stressed about the future of our country, and it’s hard not to feel down when you’re greeted by an onslaught of depressing headlines every time you open your phone. Thankfully, there is a way to lighten the existential load of all this doom and gloom—but you have to be okay with not taking yourself too seriously. You have to be whimsical.