The saying goes, “When life gives you lemons – make lemonade.” It is such a wonderful way to live and think and truly the most healthy, rewarding, and beneficial. BUT….
What if when life gives you lemons you just want to go out and buy a Jamba Juice? Easy, Peasy, someone else will squeezy?
I encountered this attitude yesterday when I decided to listen to the little man on my shoulder feeding me full of rationalizations & excuses. I was frustrated and fed that frustration turning it into a negative result. I wanted to take the easy road and have someone else fix the “lemon”. I wasn’t ready to own the “lemon”, in fact I didn’t want the “lemon”. I didn’t even ask for this “lemon”. It just decided to place itself in my life. I really wanted to ignore it and sit back and relax. I was ready to bask in my self-deserving atmosphere of pretending I was not to blame. But alas, I found out what I already knew….A lemon doesn’t turn into Jamba Juice.
Therefore I abandoned the notion of entitlement & ease, finally coming to own the lemon that was placed before me. The change in my attitude was sweet. I knew I needed to take that lemon, squeeze it into juice, and even add an extra cup of sugar (after all I live in Sugar City) – that would give me the drink that was intended. Lemonade is filled with much sweetness.
Moral of this story: The best way out of a sour situation is to make yourself sweet. It is up to you, nobody else will do. (If only it were as easy to do this as it is to write it…)