Dealing with a crisis

"I've been having a sort of existential crisis lately since I have a lot of moments of self reflection. I had more than one person unironically advise me that if I 'had a wife and a child to take care and be responsible for' I wouldn't have time to worry about petty things like existing."

He's kinda right, that one person you mentioned.

But to have a wife and a child to take care and be responsible for as a cure for existential crisis is not the way to go. That's a recipe for a shocking news story.

The crisis cannot be sweeped under the rug, so to say. When things normalize and become mundane, so that the mind is free to think again, the crisis resurfaces and now the man feels trapped and the only way of him to feel free and not to disappoint his family, which is dependent on him, when he eventually fails, is to shoot every single one of them out of love and hate simultaneously. Then kill himself. Nothing can be built on a rotten foundation.

Crisis is a thing that has to be confronted and sorted out. But a crisis is nothing more than things moving too quickly, too much change in a short period of time for an individual to keep up. In your case that might be: too much new information changing too much of your perception of things too fast. You need time to process it, to organize it. Or another solution is just to keep going and let it organize itself: when you are constantly on the move, only the bare necessities stick with you, other things get shed because they can't keep up with you.

In both cases the eventual outcome is that nothing has really changed, only your beliefs of it.

The latter is the way to learn what you truly need: Which is nothing, we were all born naked and without any possessions and that is more than enough, everything else is additional and something you accept to carry as your burden. You realize that nothing fundamental has changed from your birth, so there's no crisis, no change to move too fast for you. You anchor yourself to the only thing that paradoxically stays the same: change. And that makes you adaptive, and adaptation is key to survival and prosperity.