When another person does something to us, they are held accountable. If it’s a criminal offense, legal steps can be taken. In issues that are moral, we hope that the person does the right thing. And we also should do the same.
But what about the times that life does you wrong? Other than mixing up a big ole pitcher of lemonade, we don’t have many options. And what if we don’t like the yellow beverage or don’t have the energy, strength or financial means to turn the lemons into their liquid form? Or write a song and make a music video which I only now remember has been done but I’m going to forge ahead while assuring you I have not heard or watched, respectively.
Life can and does lob things at us like grenades coming over the wall. Most of the time they land right at our feet and explode. If you survive the attack, and some of us do not, every day can be difficult, every day can be fraught with seemingly insurmountable challenges to do the very simplest of things. We may remain alive but have to live a very different life than we had been. And how you turn that into a fruity drink can be extremely difficult to figure out, even when you want to.
There will be no financial retribution, no lump sum awarded for damages incurred. Life isn’t going to say it’s sorry. And that is a very large, painful pill to swallow. Perhaps that’s reason enough to make lemonade.
