"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is a phrase that has always bothered me rather than brought me comfort. Although it is not anywhere near as bad as "you do so much yoga!" On the surface, this phrase seems cut and dry, even easy to digest. Of course, you want to make the best of a terrible situation. But the concept that I cannot shake with this phrase is, what if life doesn't give you the rest of the ingredients for lemonade? What if it is just lemons?

Or when my mind is relatively active and scrambling to understand all angles of this phrase, is the lemonade for you or me? Are you telling me to make lemonade for your sake? Is it too uncomfortable for you to sit with me and be present in my pain and lamenting?

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