The best thing you can do....

....is to just laugh it out. I am talking about situations you come across in your own life that are not the most pleasant. I have found that instead of cribbing or mourning about it, giving it a humorous twist is the best way to deal with it. Though I have practiced this in my life 'as much as possible' (the goal is to change this phrase to one word - always), it explicitly came to my mind from a conversation I had with Nihar today.

A cousin of mine has just came in from India and is staying with me. For the past few days all three of us were having dinner together. Today when it was only me and Nihar, he asked me this question keeping her in context:

"ene tamara vishe khabar chhe?" (Does she know about the two of you?)

I instantaneously said "yes", then I paused a few seconds and gave him a broad smile. On being asked the reason, I told him -

"Back in the college days when somebody used the exact same set of words to ask a question, it was such an opposite meaning than what it meant today!!"

I found it a little amusing, a little disappointing, a little weird, a little funny, how the same words can have such drastically opposite meanings depending on their context. Again, I think the best way to face it is to laugh it off as I did today (I know, easier said than done - but again, who said life was easy!)