If Life Hands You Lemons Analysis

Christopher Reinwand
Paulette Kirkham
English 106
10 Feb 2017
This I believe: We all have a choice.
The saying goes “If life hands you lemons, make lemonade” in addition to that, I have also heard “If life hands you Lemons, throw them back and do you own thing!” two very different outcomes of the same situation. For most of my life other people’s choices really bothered me. I’ve never been one to think I know more than anyone else, but it’s easy to see when they aren’t making the best choices or using all the options that are available to them. Most people say, “that’s extremely insensitive of you to say that”, or “they can’t control it” but concerning depression for example, yes, they don’t control whether they are depressed or not, but do
We have opinions and interests but are too afraid to be different from someone else. On my mission I had a companion who taught me a very important lesson, we wanted to get dinner and so he asked me what I wanted. I replied with “I don’t care, I can eat anything.” He got mad at me he threw his hands up in the air and said, “why do I keep getting companions that won’t make any decisions!” I was surprised by his outburst and quickly decided, but that small interaction has made a profound impact in my life. It’s easier to let someone else decide, the oxford dictionary definition of herd mentality is “The tendency for people's behavior or beliefs to conform to those of the group to which they belong.” Our decision to follow or to lead is exactly that its ours to make, we can’t allow ourselves to become unopinionated, if you can think of major event that has impacted the world that wasn’t because to groups had different opinions I would be really impressed! Our country was founded because men and women were brave enough to make a decision that was different than that of their king, they became their own kings and
Are we to take the “bull by the horns “and control our lives or be fiddle-footed in our minds and actions, never having a clear objective or course?
I am still learning how to make decisions, it’s a trial and error system, but that is why this key ability is one of the many important principles we live by. When it comes to politics or it come to the gospel we all have choices to make that will point us in the direction we want to go. I was once taught “direction then velocity” when you’re throwing a ball you can’t just throw it out there and then pick the direction you want it to go, you must pick a direction and then throw it. Making decision is a big part of growing and learning, we need to be brave enough to take whatever lemon life throws at us and look at it for a minute a decide what will we do with this