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Lemons of Life


         Lemons of Life or “LoL” it’s a new term that I made up just now as my effort to engage with you all (LOL kidding xD). All of you’re already familiar with LoL in Lots of Love or Lots of Laugh but that is not the kind of LoL I want to talk to you about right now. My LoL is “Lemons of Life

          “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

          Once again I gave you an idiom that I’m also sure is not that unfamiliar to you guys. That idiom is true. If we really make lemonades for every single lemon life gave us, we will all be very rich by now. Because life’s threw lemons not just once, twice, not even thrice. Life threw lemons at us on every corner of our lives.  

          So the “lemon” that life gave us this time is the “love” lemons. I want to tell you that “the lemonade rule” still applies in this situation. That whatever happens, good or bad, make lemonades anyway. I don’t think we own love at all, it’s quite the opposite. Love owns us. Love is the core of our being.

          Love makes us capable to do unimaginable things. Love able to make us feel good, complete, secure, and happy. Love made us the happiest person on earth, it even capable to make us feel so happy like we could burst out of happiness. Love change our life. But like a yin to its yang, there is no such thing as being-happy-all-the-time. Love also bore sadness, regrets, and guilts. All that feel-good, feel-bad feelings mixed into one complex emotion called love. We could not separate one from the other. Those feel-good feelings when we got praise, when we feel loved, when we feel being cared of. When we got hurt, we feel that way just because we love that person so much. The remorse feeling that we felt because we have let down the people we love. Our love also hurts us.

          But do not be afraid of love, though. Love is still the most wonderful thing in the world. Those of you who are able to experience love-any love, are the lucky ones. Love from your parents, your siblings, your peers, even your love for yourselves. I need you to know that you are loved by anyone, so very much. So love them back. Love them hard. 


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  1. Awesome my dear kakak..a new idiom ..LOL. I like it..Lemons of Life..and feel it..so like LOL right?...Lots of Love and we also happy..LOL. it' s just ordinary words..LOL

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    1. Hihi iya Nekk karena udah familiar "LOL" itu jadi semua orang bisa relate sama singkatan yang Kakak bikin xD

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