Life will teach you that you can’t control what happens to you, but you can change what you do about it. I strongly believe that. We each have the power to turn any situation around and we each have the power to change how we allow it to define us.
I used to hate hearing this phrase, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” It kind of annoyed me, like obviously you make lemons from lemonade. But I missed the point of it. I missed its true context. Now, I get it. The older I’ve gotten, the more I have come to understand it and to fully embrace its meaning.
When you are faced with an unexpected *negative* situation, you have two choices: You can stare at the lemons (worry about the situation) and have self-pity for yourself OR you can move forward and make something better out of it (lemonade). You always have two choices for what’s next.
There have been times when I believed that I was going to get an internship or get a job; times when I believed everything was going to go exactly my way. I seriously thought I was going to get what I wanted, but then I got rejected. There have been times when I planned for a school project to go one way, but then it seemed like all hell broke loose. In all of these situations I was left to ask myself, “What am I going to do now?”
It was easy for me to stay in that negative place, that not-so-good situation. It was easy for me to get angry, down, and feel defeated. But I chose to push through it. I pushed through it hard, doing what I thought was needed to surpass it all. I chose to make the most of it. There was nothing that I could do with the lemons that I had been dealt. All I could do was to make lemonade out of them. All I could do was to choose to see the situation for what it was and to move forward.
This “lemon” phrase, in its own weird, teaches us that in each situation that we encounter, we have to choose to move forward and to push against what’s coming our way. Some of our toughest, most unpredictable situations will become our greatest successes. Instead of dreading these situations, we should be encouraged by them to step out of our fears, our discomfort and to push forward.
You see, that’s the thing about life: you always have two choices in every situation you encounter. You cannot get through life without things not going your way, without having failures, and without the crap hitting the fan. But I’ve realized you can make the decision to move forward through it all… to find your inner power and to gain the mindset that you need in order to get through whatever it is you have to endure. At the end of the day, whenever life gives you lemons, make the decision to make lemonade out of them. It’s always applicable in its own *weird* way.
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