Never drink the Lemonade

When life gives you lemons….give them back.  Simply say “no thank you” and walk away.  Why waste your time making lemonade?   Now if you get hit in the back of the head with them as you’re walking away, you have every right to throw them back.  I’ve been struggling with positivity lately and well…it’s been a struggle.  You have to smile when you want to cry and keep moving to prevent yourself from becoming stagnant. I have taken the lemons that have been rapidly firing at me in the back of the head and, instead of throwing them back I’m going to learn how to make those fruit design thingies.

See, you have options.  So when life gives you lemons, people tell you to make lemonade (I don’t like people telling me what to do), I have the right to throw them back because they were thrown at me (while fun, I don’t really want to hurt anyone), I could hold on to them and let them fester and rot (totally disgusting-yet this is what most people do) or I can create my own outcome.  I’ve decided to make lemon design thingies.

Now that the parable of the lemons is complete I can stop confusing myself and speak so that at least I can understand me. I have been struggling with whether I should keep it real in my blog or just write about the good stuff that’s happening.  And it wouldn’t be fair to the five of you that take the time to read this thing to be anything less than truthful.  Sometimes life sucks (lemons in fact).  And you have to deal with it.  So as hard as it may be sometimes to get up, to keep pushing through, to keep trying to move in the right direction, JUST KEEP GOING. 

Be the little engine that could or as Dory from Finding Nemo likes to say, “Just keep swimming”.  Eventually you will swim out of your situation and into a better one.  It could be a quick lap in the pool or a swim across the Atlantic.  I’m in the water for sure.  I feel like I’m in the deep end. I can’t feel the bottom but I know it’s there somewhere. Although, I must say I’m totally closer to the lap in the pool than swimming across a damn ocean.  With that in mind, I feel much better knowing that I could very well be in far worse situations and am blessed to be where I am.  That doesn’t mean I don’t want to throw the lemons back, it just means I’ve chosen a different reaction.

Note to self: If this whole fruit carving thing doesn’t work, start fire blasting these damn lemons back at’em.