What do people do when life gives them lemons?

I had just turned on my laptop when I  received a mail from my HR informing about the meeting. He asked me to  come with the laptop and nobody was copied except my boss then 

General  Manager. I was working as a design engineer that time. I had a big  argument with my boss the day before so I thought it might be related to  that, some warning etc. 

As soon as I reached his office, he  told me that my boss was not happy with my performance and that I had  been terminated immediately and was asked to give my laptop the same  

time. 

My response? blank

I gave my laptop to him and left  the office taking my stuff. I told everybody about my termination who  met me on the way and asked me why I was leaving with stuff. The good  thing 

was I took that in the good spirit without any embarrassment as I  was already not sharing good terms with my boss. 

I went to  Starbucks straight from the office. I took out my notepad and wrote down  all the things I always wanted to do but couldn't due to my 12 hours  job. The first thing I wrote 

was a solo trip. The list was like this:

solo trip
complete a book- which I have been writing since a year
start NGO- which I always wanted to
read one novel in a month

I  did everything mentioned above. I left the next day for the solo trip  of four days and the trip made me realize many things which I was  missing in my life. I did complete my book and 

published it. I did start  my own NGO and I did read one book in a month and still doing it.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!! :)

Source:
https://www.quora.com/What-do-people-do-when-life-gives-them-lemons