Lemonade!
when life hands you lemons …… you are spose to make lemonade right?
What if you are not very fond of lemonade..haha…then what?
Too often than not there seems to be an abundance of hurdles in each persons life. Very different of course for each human, but still I feel some of all the same underlining issues. Everyone wants to feel cared for, nurtured,valued, important,strong,safe,fearless,physically healthy, but most of all overwhelmingly loved.
We all go in search of this, and when we dont achive some of these we feel…..? like failures? unsatified..fullfilled? People say you must love yourself before you love others. But is that true? For love to exist in the first place dont you just have to have a open warming heart for another..See their falts and look past them to the greater overallness of them. What does that have to do with you personally. I would like to believe people can love and truely mean it dispite thier dislike for themselves. I know many around me that underneith it all do not really truely care for themsevles. But I do believe with my WHOLE heart that they do love me. And… I love them back, for those same falts they hate of themsevles.
So back to lemonade… if you dont like it, do you just throw away the lemons, or do you use them simply for somethign else in a diff manner. Maybe as decor, or to flavor a fish, make salad dressing? Or even lemon cupcakes!:D….
So whose to say if you do not truely love youself(lemonade) that you wont find a way to make use of yourself in an area that you do love (cupcakes) for others to love. Is this how the world really works and how love does as well? We all just find a way to find a nitch and someone who loves us for that nitch? Thus making each hurdle we then soon there after run across a little easier to deal with bit by bit? Do we keep finding new little nitches about ourselves growing in numbers of people who love us for each little one till the very end, till we pass away.
I dunno, I really dont know what Im takling about. I am just rambling as thoughts come to my head. And ironically and silly as this is, is that one of you will read this and say so perfectly… I love her for this. And thank you! For this is my days nitch maybe my weeks nitch. One that I think while typing is simply lemonade, but you think it is my lemon cupcake coming to life.
I hope you all are doing well and finding ways to use your lemons. I am struggle/guggling(like a clown
haha ) a few of mine but knowing/feeling the love that I know exists from others makes these hurdles just a bit less difficult. Thank you.

LOve always,
xoxoxoxo
tessie

















First of all good to hear from you again BNOFF. I think the whole lemon/lemonade thing can be a lesson in how we view ourselves as being creative. You being an amazingly creative person will most likely always make lemonade, hence the lemon cupcakes. I used to be that way also, but as I have gotten older, I have gotten very sour results on enough occasions that I am much more careful, and less likely to experiment. So now I rely on people like you, to come up with the original idea, and then I try to use my expertise and experience to improve upon that idea. So I might add grape to that lemonade, or some other flavor that previously hasn’t been thought of. Just like in life, I might suggest a different way to travel down a road we have already traveled a hundred times before, like when its dark, just to see what you may have missed in bright sunlight. I’d love to hear what others think about this.
Wow, a good blog! As always, I miss you so much! Look forward to more blogs in the future!
It takes an opened minded person and one with a zest for life (get it.. lemons.. zest? buahaha) to be creative and not just see lemon and/or lemonade. Life does give punches & lemons but its important to turn those life hurdles into pillars of strength & character. Goes back to that ole saying “that which doesn’t break us only makes us stronger”
JB – love your comment too! new way of looking at things is always good and gives new perspective.
xoxo,
Kat
I think you’ve got it right: if you don’t like lemonade, use the lemons for something that you do enjoy. For me, the main point of the saying is to take the set-backs, the hurdles, the “lemons” of your life and turn them into something positive. And I really like this theme of creativity we’ve got going.
As for people loving others even if they don’t love themselves: I have seen this too. Or people loving and caring for others at the expense of their own well being. I’m all for selfless acts of love, but selfless really only requires that we are not doing something for any personal gain, not that we negate our own selves!
I’m going to paraphrase some scripture (I do so recognizing that not everyone here shares the same beliefs as I do, however I hope this particular quote is one we can all agree on): we are called to love our neighbour as our self. This implies not only doing good to those around us, but it also instructs us to love ourselves so that we may love others in the same way. Of course, we have a ways to go to make this a true reality. Love I think goes both ways: by loving others we build them up and by being loved we are built up.
Tes, I can say that i do agree with you. I think that loving ourselves comes in stages, levels, little by little. As we navigate life’s path we gain and maybe lose a little love for ourselves. but the thing is that i feel you can always loves others no matter where you are on that path. I know i feel i love, truly deeply love and, as with most ppl, i do think i completely love myself. I love myself more and more. I think loving others helps me love myself. When we are handed lemons i think we need to make what we can of them, be it lemonade, lemon pie, lemon cake, or lemon cupcakes
(with sprinkles) I think that makes us who we are inside. Life loves to test us and being able to love give the opportunity to meet ppl along the way that can help us with the path. I also agree that loving someone is to fully see every little fault and strength that person has and to focus on the strengths. To be there cupcake and help them along life’s path. As we do that we allow them to help us with our own hurdles. this does not make the hurdles any easier it makes us better and better prepares us for the hurdles so they are not as tough as they used to be.
I feel that when life gives us lemons, the fact that we make something of them is the great thing and the good thing. Not doing anything just rots the lemons and us. Hell even juicing them and fermenting them to make lemon hooch is a good thing.
When we are standing in a lemon orchard its hard to see the positive effect our lemon cupcakes are having on another’s path.
Know this, in your life’s path YOU encountered a weiturdorkus and you made and are making it’s path a little easier. So as you move down your path know that with all that is going on YOU have made someone’s path a little easier with your wonderful lemon cupcakes.
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PS If you made it this far you are really bored and must be trying to fall asleep so i hope it worked.
Just because you don’t like lemonade, that doesn’t mean you can’t turn around and sell the lemonade…just don’t drink the kool-aid.
I don’t necessarily think you have to love yourself to love others, but it helps if you want them to love you back. People can take your lemons for only so long…but who’s to say that lemons aren’t what they’re looking for. Nobody’s perfect, and how lonely would that be to be perfect, to have no one that lives up to your standards or level. It’s not always lemons that we get, sometimes it’s something we’ve never had before, and once we’ve had it, nothing will ever live up to it again.
I’ve said this before, but our faults make us who we are, we build upon them till they become strengths…I know I have mine.
Everything we do, everything we are, everything we will be, is what we take from our encounters with others through life.
John Lennon said that life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. The key to happiness is to enjoy them when they are happening.
I know you made me smile for the year of my life that I was fortunate enough to know you. I hope I left an imprint on your life and soul also. I do not know if you will read this, come back into my life somehow, or even a next life encounter.
But thanks for The Dance.