When life gives you lemons...

This week i found myself questioning life's fruits. Because you see, when life gives you lemons, people often tend to take them without hesitation. At the best of times we can have many a lemon. But lemons, same with good things, never stay ripe for long. You may be having a good day or even a great week.But alas, you cannot hold onto the same lemons for too long, before they start to go bad, and become useless.



Erin sat at home, and it seemed her lemons were going bad. Her freedom has been piled from her grip and therefore, life is not handing out as many lemons. Although she wasn't complaining, i could see that it was irritating her. She tried to hide them, but Erin's emotions were so easy to read that she might as well show me her diary. Her loud boisterous attitude was a new.
Erin was so used to being provided for, having exceeding lemons. Now that she had quite little, she was finding it hard to keep up, and her chosen solution as to become loud and big-headed. When you re so used to being spoilt and having all the lemons in the world provided to you on a silver platter, ask yourself. "Why do i need all these lemons?"
Why cant we take our provided lemons and simply NOT try to have any more than me need? In the end we think we deserve more than the essentials. But the truth is that the essentials are all ANYONE needs, that's why they are called essentials. Because when you are so used to having bonus lemons and they are taken, you need to suddenly fight your own battles to get what you want, not just bypass with a flick of a lemon.



Hannah was having the opposite effect. She was finding it easier and easier each say to obtain lemons. The new good things in her life were piling up so high she could open a lemon shop. She had all the friends that most up us had to work to get, and she didn't even try. Some would say it was her personality, but honestly Hannah is just as bitter as her many, many lemons. I would just say it was luck, her big headedness is mistaken as over-confidence and her newly obtained Friends feed on that. When the lemons stop rolling in for Hannah though, her friends will see that she is simply a normal girl with the bitterness left over from her lemon overdose. In the present tense though, Hannah is not running out of the good things, and she has chose to inflict upon me with her big-headedness. To stay on top she needs to gain more fame. I ask "Why does staying onto matter so much when you hurt someone, only to get there lemons?"
Before Hannah had her massive overdose she had been very close to me, and told me about her life. Honestly, Hannah's life had less average lemons than most people, including me. Maybe she saw how many our then peaceful group had and wanted to catch up? Then when she was all up to date and the lemons continues to roll in, she was naive and continued accepting them, not to think about other people



So when life gives you lemons, unlike the advice from Chuck on Forgetting Sarah Marshal, who says to say fuck the lemons and bail. No, instead take the lemons you naturally have and make lemonade! if you come from a family where you have many lemons as your essentials, then you will have more to enjoy. if you come from somewhere where you have little lemons, then just make sure you savor and enjoy the lemonade you have in the end. Lemonade as life is.. is not just made up of the good things, there are other ingredients in too that make that miracle end concoction/



Alaura Miles. x