And my thesis advisor just jokingly said, at least now you have a good story to tell your kids! 

A good story indeed, this one - https://shrutilifejourneys.blogspot.com/

Remember, the whole losing your passport, money, and things in another country, yes that one. 

And this was just the next day, I was not sad but hopeful like most tough times. Normal Shruti is not the most hopeful one, but you throw a difficulty, and I just love that strong positive person I can become. So, here I was having no idea about my passport, bank documents, or identity documents, hoping that I would definitely find the luggage I had left on the seat of a bus. But of course, I was a little scared and worried. And my pretty cool advisor just said, this above initial first line about having a story to tell, a good story :)

And suddenly today, when I was thinking about my usual hypothesis about life, dealing with negative emotions and circumstances. Whenever something difficult happens, I assume it is adding to a beautiful story of my life, you know what a good life is, without an awesome story to tell, we all love those stories. And every setback, every difficulty, I assume is adding to this neatly crafted story of life, you know everything is making it more interesting, and making me stronger. So, anything wrong happens, it is adding to the story, the story God is crafting for me, a beautiful, lovely, strange, weird, random one, preparing me to move ahead, getting stronger each day :)!

But I realized this whole thought was the new one, not among the ones I used when I was younger. And I introspected and traced it back to my thesis advisor telling me, that a life filled with difficulties is just making you a more interesting person with stories filled with your will to fight through them. So, maybe, you could use it on yours, something going wrong, something falling completely out of place, is a sign of life trying to push you towards creating a dynamic beautiful life story for yourself. So, fight through it, and imagine how good it would feel, to tell others ( or maybe you kids - I know old grandma Shruti :) ) how you overcame all of it!