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WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS…

Chike Oranye
4 min readMay 4, 2023
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade—Elbert Hubbard.

We have all heard the quote above spoken in different ways. The quote means that you should always make the best out of adverse situations.

But as we all know, it’s easy to sound woke-deep when you’re not the one being handed the lemons by life.

Besides, the size of lemons life hands out varies between people.

(Lemons, in this analogy, are the problems people face).

This blog post will be very different from the ones I’ve written because, not only does it hit close to home, but for the first time since I started writing on Medium, I don’t care about SEO optimisation, ranking on the first page of Google, or driving traffic to my medium blog.

For non-bloggers or people who have no idea what they just read, It’s the same thing as Adele writing a song hoping the words resonate with and help at least one person while not caring about the streaming numbers or how well the music does in the mainstream market. I am just trying to paint a picture on a canvas, hoping just one person stops to look at my art and finds a…

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Chike Oranye
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