I think that from a more 'positive' perspective, it is not the number or the strength of the 'lemons' that life throws at us, that is the determinining factor in our character, relationship, and life development, but rather the strength of our 'creative and positive integrative energy' to use our 'life lemons' -- and you know what is coming here to complete the probervial saying -- to make 'sweet lemonade'.
With enough creative and positive energy -- even under dire circumstances -- together we can flourish, apart -- and negatively dissociated from life -- we perish, if not physically, then psychologically, emotionally, existentially...
-- dgb, Sept. 13th, 2009.
-- David Gordon Bain
