LIFE & LEMONS

I don't want to undermine the happiest day of my life by whining about how real life isn't as fun as getting married and sleeping in and making cookies and watching tv in bed. Being married is AMAZING. It's the best decision I have ever made.

But, reality has to set in sometime, and for me that was today. Because Cob and I didn’t really have a honeymoon (yet!), we had to go back to work the Monday after we got married. It was fine at first, but then I started to get bored. I don’t love my job and I don’t know what the end goal is for my career. I’m only mildly focused when I’m at work, and I’m super lazy and tired and unmotivated to do anything outside of work, because “working” takes up all my energy, even though I’m not doing a good job at it. It’s a terrible cycle to be caught in.

All of these frustrations were rolling around in my head today when I saw something that really struck me. There was a thread on Reddit discussing depression and anxiety and what to do when life gives you lemons. Everyone there felt completely discouraged and overwhelmed with all the “lemons" they had to deal with. I was commiserating with every comment. Life is rough. School is hard. Work is boring. The things that we hate need constant care and attention and the things that we love never seem to happen.

But then I realized something: Our existence can be totally stupid and miserable and boring and every other bad adjective we can think of.

If we let it be. IT'S OUR CHOICE!

We have the ability to make the best lemonade someone has ever tasted out of the crappiest lemons grown on planet earth. It’s our choice. We can take the lemons that life will inevitably give us and let them rot or throw them away, OR we can take a deep breath and start making some dang good lemonade! Of course this is easier said than done! It's scary to get up every morning knowing that what you’re doing isn’t fun or exciting or maybe even important. Making lemonade may be the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do, but the alternative is so much worse.

Life WILL give you lemons. Every day, for the rest of your life, you will be handed a bunch of lousy lemons that you don't want. The question is, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THEM?

Love, Rebecca