Another famous saying is “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” When I was younger I really hated that saying because I wanted to ask the question, “If life only gave you lemons where do you get the sugar or the water?” Now that I am older I can honestly say that you have to work for the sugar and the water, in fact you will probably have to work for the lemons. Lemons are meant to signify the hard times that life sends our way but I choose to see them as the moments that help you to appreciate the better times. If every moment of life was happy then how could we appreciate the times that aren’t? Without lemons how can we appreciate how good lemonade is? Life is lemonade and the lemons just help each and every person to appreciate the sweeter times.
In high school I had a teacher who was famous for a handful of catch phrases or tag lines such as “if you’re not cheating you’re not trying,” and “perception is reality.” Applying the second tagline to “the world is your oyster” can yield surprising results. For some people it means that if you find out how to do something you can be rewarded and for other people it means not everything is how it seems. For me it means if I can figure out how to get into the world then I can use life’s lemons as a delicious ingredient in my feast. Because if the world is my oyster and life gives me lemons then I guess I’m all set.
