We know the saying- when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But it’s not about making the lemonade; it’s how you’re making the lemonade.
Are you squeezing the lemons and hoping for the best?
Maybe you’re doing it begrudgingly because you’ve been knocked down so many times that you don’t have too much fight left in you?
Or are you pulling the seeds from the lemons, planting them, watering them, nurturing them, tending to them, watching them grow, and when they’re ready, pulling the lemons from the trees with care and making your own fresh lemonade?
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Don’t get me wrong- we need hope. It carries us in darkness. But we also need patience so we can find calm in the chaos, learn to savor the stillness, and allow our lives unfold in an intentional and graceful manner.
We also get cynical and jaded. Especially when we’ve had circumstances that have tested our resolve. So it’s easy to just ride through the motions, almost apathetic to life. But then we miss out on so much.
I get it- it’s hard to peel away the layers you don’t want to face or even know how to confront. There’s parts of you that are still so raw, it’s painful to touch. So you leave it, hoping that with time, it’ll just become a figment of your imagination.
Transformation is in the uncomfortable ugliness. Those in between moments where you feel like you’ve outgrown the past but you’re not quite ready for your future- that’s when you really learn who you are. It’s when you witness how much you’ve evolved and continue to grow into a more beautiful version of yourself.
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It’s like the awkward teenage years- you’re no longer a child but not yet an adult. You’re trying to find your place in the world. Except now the stakes are different. Because this time, it’s more personal than ever.
You want your comeback to be so strong that even you’re in awe of your own transformation. And it’s going to happen because anything short of that isn’t an option.
You’re no longer the person who settles for mediocrity or even anything short of what makes you happy. If it doesn’t set your soul on fire, then there’s no place for it in your life.
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Which also means you need to visit the parts of yourself that you’re running away from. I know how brutally painful it is. It’s happened to me too- I kept running even when I collided into brick walls.
The layers are where you rediscover bits and pieces of yourself, where you meet versions of yourself you haven’t met yet, it’s where home is. Home is finding yourself in the deconstruction and reconstruction of yourself.
So tend to your lemons, no matter how bruised, sour, or rotten they seem. Because I guarantee you, when you’re gentle, kind, and compassionate with yourself, you’ll get a new, improved crop- better than you could have ever imagined.
I’ll see you soon…in the meantime, love yourself so much that even a Hallmark Christmas movie would be jealous.
