When life gives you lemons...

Sometimes life isn´t fair and sometimes things just suck. But at the end of the day noone is going to solve your problems for you so you´ll have to figure out a way yourself. The older I get (and yes I do know I sound like I´m 80 when I say stuff like that) the more I realize how hard these things really are. When you´re young your parents usually swoop in whenever you´re in real trouble. And then one day you´re 22 and have no idea how to sort your problems out. So you can´t really rely on anyone else anymore - you just have to make the best of a crappy situation.

What I´m saying is you learn how to deal with things simply by dealing with them. There is no shortcut. And I´m not talking about skills like doing laundry, paying taxes or making doctors appointments. I mean heartbreaks and disappointment and hurt and all the every day frustrations that life throws at us just when we started thinking we´re perfectly happy.

This is not necessarily negative though, because I honestly think that this whole „when one door closes, another one opens“ shit isn´t all that wrong. To be honest no door needs to close for another to open it´s only that we often don´t see the many options we have until something bursts our comfortable little bubble. So never sit down and sulk for too long because the things we often see as failures can prove to be great opportunities if we only find the courage to deal with them the right way. I´m trying to not put myself down as much anymore as it´s seriously started affecting my health both mentally and physically and I doubt I´m the only person who does that. So instead of freaking out every time something doesn´t go the way I wanted it to I will try and start making the best of a bad situation. You know what they say: „when life gives you lemons…“

„...get salt and a bottle of tequila and have a fucking party.“