AIMLESS CHALLENGE (20 THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO)

Do you ever feel like you're standing outside your life and staring blankly at it, seemingly completely devoid of all brain activity, even though you know you should probably do something? Well, I've written a handy list of things to do when you don't know what to do. Let's call it the AIMLESS CHALLENGE. These are your tasks - complete them if you dare.

1. Compose a poem about the moon. A haiku, a limerick, rhyming couplets that have little connection? WHATEVER.
2. Draw a dog. Especially if you can't draw - just draw a dog, okay?
3. Take a photo. Why are you ever NOT taking one?
4. Organise your socks. There's no better time to organise your socks than right now! What a riveting activity!
5. Eat ice cream. No reason for this, I just thought it was a good suggestion. Try praline or pistachio flavour.
6. Read some non-fiction, and either learn something cool or fall asleep - or both!
7. Think about Niles Crane. Just think about him.
8. Put on a necklace. Or five necklaces. You can put on as many necklaces as you want. That's the beauty of this world.
9. Write an angry letter. To your dad, to Mr Blobby, to the electric company. Whoever.
10. Visit the river. Walk alongside it. Wave happily to it. It appreciates your company.
11. Start a blog. If I can do it, you certainly can. Write ten blog posts about your hatred for the Cloverfield movies, or whatever.
12. Play video games for six hours. Grow crops, or destroy orcs, or capture cute monsters for a while. A long while.
13. Force someone to watch a slideshow of your holiday snaps. A timeless classic for all the family!
14. Write a Will & Grace fan fiction where they get abducted by aliens. Please. And then send it to me.
15. Clean your floor. Come on, it needs cleaning and you know it.
16. Make a macaroni-decorated frame for someone. The greatest gift of all.
17. Clear out your wardrobe. Only keep the items a cool space detective would wear when time travelling to 1981.
18. Rearrange all your furniture, decide it looks weird, and then put it all back in its original place. A really important ritual that we all must carry out every two years for no reason whatsoever.
19. Watch this series of video essays about the Transformers movies by Lindsay Ellis. It's called 'The Whole Plate' and it's amazing.
20. Sleep. You've done enough now. Sweet dreams.