When life hands you lemons, make lemonade

The past few days have been extremely difficult for me. In the midst of my sorrow and heavy emotions over my break up, I have realized that there are so many more important things to worry about in life.

I received an e-mail at the end of the day yesterday that made me cry tears of joy for the first time in a long time. It was from Cathy's boyfriend, Brian. He told me how Cathy is making progress in her current medical state (she is still in a coma) and that the other day she actually squeezed his hand. Now, we don't know if this was actually Cathy or an involuntary muscle movement, but we are sure believing it is the better of the two.

This situation was also put into perspective by my fabulous mother who told me something her friend said today. I guess one of our family friends was complaining about helping his son fix something on his car. Well, his wife turned to him and said, "I bet Cathy's dad would do anything to be fixing her car for her right now." It just really reminded me that life is not always about what you think it should be about. And though things may not be your way, they are still better than they could be.

The e-mail from Brian and conversation with my mom made me realize, through these tears of joy, that though my life is very tough right now, it is not nearly as bad as it could be. I am extremely blessed to be surrounded by people who love me all the time. I am blessed to have friends who love me like family and family who loves me more than anything. I am so happy to be healthy and doing the things I want to do with my life.

When life hands you lemons, you have to make lemonade. There is nothing else you can do. If you don't then you will remain sad for too long and will not see everything that the world has to offer you. Right now I'm trying my hardest to make a lot of lemonade and realize that though my heart is truly aching, it could be worse and Jeff could not be a part of my life at all.

My relationship has taught me many things about myself and made me realize that I control my future. If I'm not happy with the direction it is going, then I have every right to change the direction because the decisions I make are my own. I only have one life to live and in this life I have to live it to the fullest and get everything I can out of it.

I can only hope that all of my friends do the same. Please, live your life to the fullest, live your life for yourself and don't settle for anything you don't feel you deserve. Don't expect the world to change for you. You need to take it as it is and respect yourself in the process.

I'm slowly making my lemons into lemonade right now... and soon enough life will be sweet and I will be stronger because of it.

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