Awkward situations can just make you cringe and want to hide in a hole for the rest of your life. However, everyone goes through awkward situations. They are almost inevitable, and some point in life you would deal with an awkward situation. But do you know what makes awkward situations awkward? It is because people do not know how to react or respond and it makes it very awkward. Therefore, it is important to know how to act in an awkward situation.
Laugh It Off
The most common way to deal with awkward situations is to just simply laugh. You can never go wrong with laughing and laughing is actually healthy. Laughing is universal and almost everyone laughs while in an awkward situation. Laughing is one of the simplest ways to deal with awkward situations and it just comes out naturally because we have being used to doing that. However, why does laughing work? First of all, laughing is better than no response which makes the situation you are in even more awkward. Laughing makes it seem as if you are taking that awkward situation and turning it into a joke. Laughter makes life much more comfortable because we are happy. Therefore, by turning silence into laughter, it turns an awkward situation the other way around.
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