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Shoshanna from 'Girls': The Suburban Girl's Ultimate Spirit Animal

Those who say Lena Dunham's Girls isn't relatable to anyone who doesn't live in hipster Brooklyn hasn't spent enough time with Shoshanna Shapiro.

Played by Zosia Mamet, Shoshanna is you who dreamed of life in the big city, only to be disappointed by how awful it smells and how rude people are. She's you who grew up upper middle class in a cute two-story home, thinking of ways to rebel against your lame parents. She's you whose naivete is constantly crushed by the real world. In short, if you're the archetypal suburban girl, consider her your spirit animal. Here are a few more examples:

You've been told all your life to follow your dreams:

[caption id="attachment_451074" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Tumblr] [Photo Credit: Tumblr][/caption]Third base was the biggest deal at your high school, then you got to college and realized this:

[caption id="attachment_451059" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Giphy] [Photo Credit: Giphy][/caption]Mamet and her Girls co-stars give dating advice to all the Suburban girls out there...

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The skeletons in your closet include multiple shoplifting incidents, the curfew ticket you got for sneaking out of the house to see your ex, and this:

[caption id="attachment_451049" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Giphy] [Photo Credit: Giphy][/caption]You can't help that your point of reference for everything is a YA movie:

[caption id="attachment_451061" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Tumblr/HBO] [Photo Credit: Tumblr][/caption]You travel in a pack to the rare warehouse party you go to because you have no idea how to start small talk with the people who go to warehouse parties:

[caption id="attachment_451075" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Tumblr] [Photo Credit: Tumblr][/caption]You're all about crazy life experiences to build up your street cred, but you freak out about them in the moment: 

[caption id="attachment_451051" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Giphy] [Photo Credit: Giphy][/caption]You still think online dating is taboo, and you're holding onto the rom-com idea that you'll meet the love of your life while walking your dog at the park:

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You think this about every hottie at a party (but keep it yourself):

[caption id="attachment_451053" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Giphy] [Photo Credit: Giphy][/caption]You secretly pick and choose friends according to who can complete your Sex and the City foursome:

[caption id="attachment_451072" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Tumblr] [Photo Credit: Tumblr][/caption]Summering in the Hamptons is a life goal:

[caption id="attachment_451057" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Giphy] [Photo Credit: Giphy][/caption]A genuine good time to you still means participating in something associated with your fond childhood memories, like wrapping Christmas presents, grilling hot dogs on the 4th, or this:

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You talk on the phone like this:

[caption id="attachment_451060" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Tumblr/HBO] [Photo Credit: Tumblr][/caption]You can only take so much of those big-city, pretentious pseudo-intellectuals:

[caption id="attachment_451062" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Tumblr/HBO] [Photo Credit: Tumblr/HBO][/caption]And you say you're "so over it," all of it, at least once a week...

[caption id="attachment_451073" align="aligncenter" width="615"][Photo Credit: Tumblr] [Photo Credit: Tumblr][/caption]...but no matter how much you try to be, you're still weirdly incapable of being jaded.

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