Hi! there...it's been a while!
When life serves you LEMONS you can always make LEMONADE!
and a can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune.
The 'acidity' of lemons versus the 'sweetness' of lemonade.
No... I'm not going to elaborate on this phrase
nor give you a recipe...
although today is the first day of summer
and who doesn't like to have a fresh glass
of homemade lemonade in the summertime!! Right!
This phrase came to mind as I was translating a text
from Danie Beaulieu's book I'm working on.
It surely 'rang a bell' with me and had an impact also,
especially thinking back to the unfortunate circumstances
in which we all went through in April
concerning the ESL classes.
I thought I would share it with you today!
So here a great little story which ends
in a very positive note and has a great outcome!
ENJOY! and have a great weekend.
Don't fret, summer is really on ts way :)
Suzanne
THE OLD MULE WHICH WAS DOOMED TO DIE.
There once was a farmer who owned an old mule. One day the mule fell to the bottom of the well and the farmer heard the mule begging him to come rescue him. After carefully studying the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule for a moment and decided that neither the mule nor the well were worth the trouble of keeping so he wasn’t going to make an effort to save them. At that point he called all his neighbors, told them what had happened and enlisted their help to transport and dump enough soil filling the well and burying the old mule, thus resolving the problem.
At the beginning of the operation, the mule was downright hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors shoveled the earth into the well and onto its back, the mule was suddenly struck by an idea. He decided that whenever a shovel-load of earth landed on his back, he could shake it off and get up on it! So this is what he did, repeating to himself with courage shovelful after shovelful: «Shake it off and shake it off ... and get back on top of it! » Without worrying about the pain of the blows on his back and as distressing as it may have seemed, the old mule fought his panic and continued shaking off the earth and getting up on top of it. It was not long before the old mule, crippled and exhausted, reached the top and finally stood triumphantly on the edge of the well! What could have buried him alive proved to be precisely what saved him, using his misfortune to his advantage.
Such is life! If we face our problems and we decide to solve them constructively, refusing to panic, being bitter nor dwelling in self-pity, we will then see how adversities that "should" overwhelm us have within them the potential and the opportunity to be used to our advantage. Never fear trying something new!
At the beginning of the operation, the mule was downright hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors shoveled the earth into the well and onto its back, the mule was suddenly struck by an idea. He decided that whenever a shovel-load of earth landed on his back, he could shake it off and get up on it! So this is what he did, repeating to himself with courage shovelful after shovelful: «Shake it off and shake it off ... and get back on top of it! » Without worrying about the pain of the blows on his back and as distressing as it may have seemed, the old mule fought his panic and continued shaking off the earth and getting up on top of it. It was not long before the old mule, crippled and exhausted, reached the top and finally stood triumphantly on the edge of the well! What could have buried him alive proved to be precisely what saved him, using his misfortune to his advantage.
Such is life! If we face our problems and we decide to solve them constructively, refusing to panic, being bitter nor dwelling in self-pity, we will then see how adversities that "should" overwhelm us have within them the potential and the opportunity to be used to our advantage. Never fear trying something new!
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