When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Then Life will be all like "Whaaat?!"
I have this phrase on my instragram, and people tend to ask me about it because they don’t get it. Sometimes people joke that I got it wrong. I personally love this saying and I’ll tell you why!
It first came from Phil Dunphy from Modern Family and he was sitting on that couch reading his book called “Phil-osophy” and he said it like this:
“When life gives you lemonade, make lemons, then life will be all like ‘whaaaaat?!’”
I love the quote because it says a lot of things:
Do the impossible but also do the impossible with simple things, like lemons (i.e. don’t just try to do the impossible only when something is extra challenging) Try to always think outside of the box and go the extra mile, even if it’s for something minor or seemingly insignificant
I also interpret it as, if life seems easy and simple, don’t settle. Life already gave you the lemonade! what else is there left to do?! Just because your life doesn’t require you to hustle or to try hard or to challenge yourself, do it anyways. Have the courage to always try your hardest, no matter if you need to or not.
Through technology, our lives have been over simplified. You can buy pre-made meals, or pre-packaged presents. You can send text messages instead of calling or popping over to someone’s place to say hi or to chat. You can pretty much purchase anything these days, it’s just a matter of going online and making a few clicks from the comfort of your couch.
I think it’s so important that we challenge ourselves to bring the hustle back into our lives and to bring the humanity back in. It’s so easy to be lazy these days, because the world has evolved that way. We need to push back and think of how it’s affecting us, affecting our relationships, and affecting how we appreciate life!!
So for those of you who always wondered why I had that on my instagram - as Bill Nye would say - now you knowwwwwwww.
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