If you've been living under a rock, "New Girl" is a popular TV sitcom that premiered on Fox in 2011. Now in its fifth season run, the show has developed from a lighthearted show everyone watched for laughs to a hilarious, heartfelt show with characters people of all ages can relate to. I've recently had the joy of rediscovering the show and having bugged all my friends to watch it with me, and I've realized why the show has meant so much to me in the past few weeks.

"New Girl" was something I enjoyed watching while it was on TV a couple years back; it wasn't something I actively searched for online in order to watch chronologically. It's the kind of show that you didn't actually need to watch in order to understand who was who or what was going on, which, for me at the time, was all I could really handle (thanks, IB). Since I moved to the U.S. for college and soon after discovered the joys of Netflix and McDonald's that didn't deliver to you in the dead of night, I decided to give the show a serious try, and by that I mean watch an episode of it every night after killing myself over work before falling asleep.

I love this show because it's absolutely hilarious, and so annoyingly true in many aspects. The main character, Jess, moves into an apartment with three guys she's just met on Craigslist after being cheated on by her boyfriend who she lived with. The show encapsulates the lives of these four 30-year-olds and their friends Cece and Coach perfectly: Jess, a quirky middle school teacher; Nick, a law school drop-out/bartender who doesn't have his own phone and uses a sandwich bag as a wallet; Schmidt, a successful marketing associate in a female-dominated work space who is also a self-proclaimed womanizer and in constant denial of his germophobia; and Winston, a retired basketball player returning from playing professionally in Latvia for two years.

I love this show because all of these characters have been me at one point or another. I've fumbled through messy breakups and terribly awkward situations and the endless question of never knowing what you're doing with your life, and honestly, if this show taught me anything it's that it's perfectly fine to be 30 and still not know what you want to do with your life.

In this day and age, it's become somewhat expected to know what you want to do and how you're going to go about doing it before you're even 18. With the crushing weight of college and job applications lined up for late millennials/early generation alphas, it's really no wonder why we have so many interpersonal relationship problems; the most common being commitment.

This show reminds me that it's perfectly fine not to know the answers to everything, and that everything will eventually fall into place. It's important to remind yourself that you are more than what you do and what others think of you, and that not everything in life is a race. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, make them put $60 in the d-bag jar, because that's an even sh*ttier thing to say than that time Schmidt tried to kiss Jess on his birthday.

I'm so glad that I rediscovered this show at a critical time in my life when you're always expected to know when you're going to graduate, or what you want to do with your degree, or what kind of job you want. It's truly a great show, and lots of episodes honestly make me tear up because they're literal squad god goals: like when Jess got stood up and the guys ditched their party to serenade her at the restaurant in the first episode, or when Nick drove the group to Candy Cane Lane as part of Jess' Christmas present and all the lights on the houses were off but they screamed and shouted at the top of their lungs so that the people in the houses would wake up and turn the lights on.

"Nick Miller, Nick Miller, he's a stone cold killer."