Life & Lemons

We had once carried a food feature in Good Housekeeping which said, 'If life gives you lemons...' It was a collection of recipes using lime and lemon as ingredients. Of course all tried-tested in the GH mode: simple, quick and delicious. But what does one do when life really, really gives you lemons, unexpected ones at that? Choices are limited. You can give in, wallow in paralysing self-pity, keep yourself cocooned in a drunken, thought-blocking stupor or you can make a laundry list of what-can-be-done and get moving. The only problem in opting for the obvious 'good' choice (as we would say in GH) is that the lemon-rich victim begins to get blurred vision: he can no longer see why he should make the 'good' choice, it just doesn't seem worth the effort. Bring on the gin, instead, sort of thing. Recently faced with some kgs of life lemons, I am battling the blurred vision. Not easy. But it may help, I think, to get someone one trusts to clear one's vision and so one can see the way ahead with clarity. Also, do things that you enjoy. Of course, this does not include hitting the bottle, if that happens to be your favourite joy-giving activity! Drinking pushes up the blurr factor after the haze is over. Believe me on this one. I have to go now and try and work at my laundry list of what-can-be done... Till next time.