When life gives you lemons —

they can be sour or sweet, depending on what you do with them.

Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash

When life doesn’t turn out the way we’d hoped, planned, or expected, we feel tremendous disappointment and start doubting everything, including ourselves. What we need to acknowledge first is that we aren’t in as much control of our lives as we think. Things can change on a dime. Events happen, life happens, as…