When Life Gives You Lemons

Some of you have heard the saying "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.", but what does that mean exactly? It means that when bad stuff happens, try to make the best of it. When sour things (lemons) happen to you, make them sweet (lemonade)! After today, and well, this week, I feel like I have made a ton of pitchers full of lemonade! There is a specific lemon that just seems to be making me very sour and its simply this: DRAMA!


   Honestly, I don't understand what the whole point of drama is. I mean, where does it get people, but crying middle school girls, gossip about people who you probably don't even know or barely know, and broken relationships and trust. I, however, people would say that I used to be the queen of drama, and now I HATE IT!!! I don't get it...at all!!! One of my close friends told me more than once, that drama just seems to follow me wherever I go, and today, I really believe that statement because it seems to be a fact. I feel like I have this "drama cloud" hovering over me and its just being filled with dramatic situations and waiting for that moment to pour down on me and just drench me!!! *UGH!!* I'm not trying to complain, but seriously-WHY THE DRAMA???!!!!  Its just dumb!!! This is how I view drama and how the world/society feeds off of drama....


EXHIBIT A: CINDERELLA 

 



It starts with her awful life with evil stepsisters, scrubbing the fireplace. Then she get an invitation to the ball! Things look up. Then the fairy godmother makes her a dress and a coach. Even better! Then she goes to the ball, and dances with the prince! This is great! But then it's midnight. She has to go. Oh no. Sadness. Back to her humdrum life scrubbing the fireplace. But it's not as bad as before, because she's had this encouraging experience. Then, the prince finds her, and the happiness factor is off the chart! Happily ever after. People LOVE that story! This story arc has been written a thousand times in a thousand tales. And because of it, people think their lives are supposed to be like this.



Exhibit B: DISASTER!!






 It's an ordinary day in an ordinary town. But something horrible happens! A child falls down a well! The whole town gathers to save her. Old grudges surface, but are belittled in the light of this tragedy. Rifts are bonded as people work together. The child is saved, and all is well. But notice it's a little better than it was before, now that this incident has brought them all closer together. Again...people think they have to live their lives based on that. WRONG!!!


EXHIBIT C: REALITY







Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so fantastic or terrible that it'll be told for a thousand years. But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”
That's why people invent fights. That's why we're drawn to sports. That's why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal.
We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale. NOT POSSIBLE PEOPLE!!! Goodness!!!


DRAMA DOESN'T SOLVE ANYTHING!!! IT MAKES THINGS WORST!! ONLY GOD CAN MAKE THINGS RIGHT!! ITS NOT WORTH IT!!!
sorry about my rant but I was annoyed so I wanted to share my opinion!

THANKS FOR READING AND GOD BLESS!