We all have that one slightly irrational coping mechanism when the world gets too loud. Pick your preferred form of mild escapism:

Options

• Putting on noise-canceling headphones with no music playing
• Taking a completely unnecessary 'little walk'
• Closing my laptop like a clamshell mid-task
• Aggressively decluttering one very specific drawer
• Browsing real estate in a country I don't live in
• Re-watching a movie I've already seen 10 times
• Building a theoretical cart on a shopping app, then closing it
• Complaining about it to my one designated safe friend
• Staring out the window like a dramatic Victorian ghost
• Making a very elaborate, impractical beverage